Comments on: Uno: A Brief History of the Classic Card Game http://www.toy-tma.com/kids-toys/card-games-pokemon/uno-history-classic-card-game/ gaming, toys, reviews and news Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:43:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill johnsonhttp://www.toy-tma.com/kids-toys/card-games-pokemon/uno-history-classic-card-game/comment-page-1/#comment-58353 Bill johnson Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:56:30 +0000 http://www.toy-tma.com/?p=1589#comment-58353 I played crap on your neighbor in the army in 1978, it was olso called f..k your buddy. It was a blast to play. I also play uno.......but its a knock off of crap on your neighbor. I played crap on your neighbor in the army in 1978, it was olso called f..k your buddy. It was a blast to play. I also play uno…….but its a knock off of crap on your neighbor.

]]> By: TootsNYChttp://www.toy-tma.com/kids-toys/card-games-pokemon/uno-history-classic-card-game/comment-page-1/#comment-50873 TootsNYC Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:40:57 +0000 http://www.toy-tma.com/?p=1589#comment-50873 When I was in high school in rural Iowa (from 1974 to 1978), we played a card game in the student lounge that we called "Crap on Your Neighbor."It was essentially "Uno." Except that when you were down to one card, you had to call out "one card," not "uno."All other features were the same. You played with (if I remember right) 3 decks for every 2 people. 7 skipped; jack reversed; 2 was "draw two"; low joker was a wild card; high joker was a wild-draw 4.I have no idea where it came from; I assumed it was a "real" card game the way Hearts or Spades or Crazy Eights are "real" card games. And I always assumed that the game company had simply taken an existing game and turned it into a trademark by giving it a name and a design. (Much the way the old dice game "Yacht" was turned into "Yahtzee" and also "Kismet.") When I was in high school in rural Iowa (from 1974 to 1978), we played a card game in the student lounge that we called “Crap on Your Neighbor.”

It was essentially “Uno.” Except that when you were down to one card, you had to call out “one card,” not “uno.”

All other features were the same. You played with (if I remember right) 3 decks for every 2 people. 7 skipped; jack reversed; 2 was “draw two”; low joker was a wild card; high joker was a wild-draw 4.

I have no idea where it came from; I assumed it was a “real” card game the way Hearts or Spades or Crazy Eights are “real” card games. And I always assumed that the game company had simply taken an existing game and turned it into a trademark by giving it a name and a design. (Much the way the old dice game “Yacht” was turned into “Yahtzee” and also “Kismet.”)

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