How to Play Uno Flip Rules for Rulebook Haters
I hate reading rulebooks and wrote this How to Play Uno Flip rules guide to provide straight to the point game instructions.
If you are interested in other Uno editions, read about them here.
What is the goal?
- Goal: Be the first player to get rid of all your cards.
- Similar to classic “Uno”.
- Unique twist: Double-sided deck.
- Light side: Plays like traditional Uno.
- Dark side: Features different action cards and harsher penalties.
Uno Flip Game setup
- Deal cards to each player.
- Light Side cards face one way, Dark Side cards the other way.
- Highest number drawn determines the dealer (symbol = zero).
- Each player gets 7 cards: Light Side faces you, Dark Side faces your opponent.
- Form Draw and Discard Piles:
- Remainder of the deck facedown forms DRAW pile (Dark Side up).
- Turn over top card of DRAW pile to start DISCARD pile.
- Player to the dealer’s left starts first.
How to Play Uno Flip Gameplay in Simple Steps
On your turn, play a matching card onto discard pile
When playing the Light Side or the Dark Side, you must match a card from your hand with the DISCARD pile’s top card, either by number, color, or symbol (symbols represent Action Cards)
Draw a card if you can’t play matching card
- Draw a card from the DRAW pile.
- Make sure they face the same direction as the other cards in your hand.
- Add new cards to your hand with the Light Side facing you, if on the Light Side.
- You can play the card you picked up on the same turn.
- If not, you turn ends and goes to the next player.
Choose to not play a playable card
- You can choose not to play a playable card from your hand.
- You must then draw a card from the DRAW pile.
- If a card is playable, it can be put down in the same turn, but you may not play any more cards from your hand after the draw.
Call ‘Uno’ when playing 2nd last card
- When playing 2nd last card, call “UNO” to indicate that you only have one card left.
- You must draw two cards if you do not call “UNO” and you are caught before the next player’s turn begins.
Playing your last card
- Round ends and scoring is done (see UNO FLIP scoring).
- New round begins again.
- If the last card played is a Draw One, Draw Five, Wild Draw Two, or Wild Draw Color, the next player must draw the one, five, two, or until they get a chosen color card. They are counted when the points are tallied.
How do you win?
Scoring Uno Flip Round
A player who gets rid of all of their cards in a round receives points for all of their opponents’ cards as follows:
Score points based on which side (LIGHT OR DARK) the game ended on.
All number cards (1-9) Face Value
Draw One 10 Points
Draw Five 20 Points
Reverse 20 Points
Skip 20 Points
Skip Everyone 30 Points
Flip 20 Points
Wild 40 Points
Wild Draw Two 50 Points
Wild Draw Color 60 Points
Once the score for the round has been tallied, if no player has reached 500 points, reshuffle the cards and begin a new round.
Winning in Uno Flip
Be the first player to reach 500 points.
Alternative scoring and winning
Another way to score points is to keep a running tally of the points each player is left with at the end of each round. When one player reaches 500 points, the player with the lowest points is the winner.
Drawing Cards when draw pile is depleted
After the DRAW pile is depleted, the DISCARD pile is reshuffled and play continues.
Uno Flip Action Cards
Light Side
Draw One Card
- Next player draws one card and misses turn
- Card may only be played on a matching color or on another Draw One card.
- If turned up at the beginning of play, the same rule applies.
Reverse Card
- Reverses the direction of play
- Play only on a matching color or a Reverse card.
- When this card is turned up at the start of play, the dealer goes first, and then the game moves to the right.
Skip Card
- The next player loses their turn.
- Card can only be played on a matching color or on another Skip card.
- The player to the left of the dealer is “skipped” if a Skip card is turned up at the beginning of play.
Wild Card
When you play this card, you get to choose the color that continues play (including the color in play before the Wild card was laid down). Wild cards may be played on your turn even if you have another playable card. If a Wild card is dealt at the beginning of play, the person to the left of the dealer chooses the color.
Wild Draw 2 Card
- Selects the color to continue the game.
- Next player draws two cards and loses their turn.
- Can only be played if you don’t have a matching color card.
- Can be played with matching numbers or Action Cards.
- Pick a new card if this is the first card turned up at start.
- Challenge allowed if you suspect illegal play.
- Challenged player shows their hand.
- Guilty: They draw two cards.
- Innocent: Challenger draws four cards.
Flip Card
- Light Side flips to Dark Side when this card is played.
- Steps after playing Flip card:
- Flip over Discard Pile (played card now at the bottom).
- Flip over Draw Pile.
- Everyone flips their hands.
- New side remains until another Flip card is played.
- Can be played only on matching color or another Flip card.
Dark Side
Draw Five Card
The next player must draw five cards and miss their turn if you play this card. Play only on an identical color or on another Draw Five card.
Reverse Card
This card reverses the direction of play (if it is currently on the left, it changes to the right, and vice versa). You can only play this card on a matching color or on another reverse card.
Skip Everyone Card
All players get skipped (lose their turn) when you play this card. It then goes back to the player who laid it down. Play this card only on a matching color or another Skip Everyone card.
Wild Card
Playing this card lets you choose the color that continues play (any color, including the color in play before it was laid down). Even if you have another playable card in your hand, you can play a Wild card.
Wild Draw Colour Card
- Next player draws until they get the chosen color and loses their turn.
- Can only be played if you don’t have a matching color card.
- Can be played with matching numbers or action cards.
- Challenge allowed if you suspect illegal play:
- Challenged player shows their hand.
- Guilty: Challenged player draws cards until the chosen color.
- Innocent: Challenger draws cards until the chosen color plus 2 more cards.
Flip Card
- Flips everything from Dark Side to Light Side.
- Steps after playing Flip card:
- Flip over Discard Pile (played card now at the bottom).
- Flip over Draw Pile.
- Everyone flips their hands.
- New side remains until another Flip card is played.
- Can be played only on matching color or another Flip card.
