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The aim of the game is to be the first player to score 200 points, achieved (usually over several rounds of play) by being the first to play all of one's own cards and scoring points for the cards still held by the other players.
Uno includes 108 cards: 25 in each of four color suits (red, yellow, green, blue), each suit consisting of one zero, two each of 1 through 9, and two each of the action cards "Skip", "Draw Two", and "Reverse". The deck also contains four "Wild" cards and four "Wild Draw Four".[5] Sets manufactured since 2018 include 112 cards, adding one "Wild Shuffle Hands" and three customizable Wild cards.
For each hand, a dealer is determined by having each player randomly draw one card from the deck. The player with the highest number card deals, and all cards are reshuffled into the deck to begin the dealing.
To start a hand, seven cards are dealt to each player, and the top card of the remaining deck is flipped over and set aside to begin the discard pile. The player to the dealer's left plays first unless the first card on the discard pile is an action or Wild card (see below.
On a player's turn, they must do one of the following:
Cards are played by laying them face-up on top of the discard pile. Play initially proceeds clockwise around the table.
When a player has one card remaining, they must announce "Uno!" If they do not, and another player points that out, they must draw four cards from the deck.
Once a player reaches 200 points or more, the game ends and the player with the highest points will proceed to the Winners Circle.
In the event of a tie, both players will proceed to the Winners Circle.