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#UNO

Welcome to the homepage of #UNO on AfterNET!

If you already know the basic rules of the game, skip to how to play online.

Game Overview

The Deck

UNO is a card game played with a specially printed deck. The custom deck consists of cards of 4 suits (colors): red, green, blue, and yellow. The ranks in each suit are 0-9. There are 3 'honor' cards in each suit, labelled 'skip', 'draw two', and 'reverse'. There are special black cards, 'wild' and 'wild draw four'. There are two copies of each regular and honor card, except for the 0s, which only have one per suit. There are four 'wild' and 'wild draw four' cards each, producing a total of 108 cards.

Playing Your Hand

To start the game, seven cards are dealt to each player, and the top card of the stock is exposed to start the discard pile. If the exposed card has a special ability, it is treated as if the dealer played that card, and the special effect occurs (i.e., skip, draw two, reverse, or wild). If the exposed card is a wild draw four, however, it is returned to the deck and the next card is exposed. At each turn, a player may play a card from their hand that matches the suit or rank of the top exposed card, or play a wild or wild draw four.

Drawing Cards

If a player has no legal card to play, that player draws the top card of the stock, and may either play it or place it in their hand. A player may choose to draw the top card of the stock even if they have a legal play (known as reneging), but after having drawn the top card of the stock only that card may be played that turn (a player may intentionally do this when desperate to keep another player from going out). After playing a single card or drawing, the next player clockwise takes a turn, unless a reverse is in effect. If the stock is emptied, the discard pile is shuffled and turned over to replenish the stock.

Winning the Game

The hand ends when a player plays all their cards. When a player plays down to only one card, that player is required to say 'uno'.

Play UNO Now

To play, pick a nickname, change the channel to #uno, and click Continue: <javachat2>

Playing Online

For the online version of UNO, the game starts when someone types !uno in the channel. Players then have 30 seconds to join by typing 'jo'. Upon joining, each player is sent their seven-card hand via notice. The dealer exposes the top card, and play begins with the first person who joined. To play a card, the player types 'pl CN' where C is a color (R, Y, G, or B) or W for a wild card and N is a number from 0 to 9, an S for skip, R for reverse, or D for draw. So a red 3 would be played as 'pl r3', a blue skip would be played as 'pl bs', a wild would be played as 'pl w' and a wild draw four would be played as 'pl wd'. If a wild card is played, the player must declare a color by typing 'co C' where C is a color (R, Y, G, or B). If a player can not play any cards, that player must draw by typing 'dr' and then either play that card or pass to the next player by typing 'pa'. Play continues until a player has played all of their cards. The bot then declares a winner and awards points. A player can display the current top card at any time by typing 'cd' and can view his own hand by typing 'ca'. The game can be halted early by typing !stop. If only one player is around to play UNO, the bot automatically joins to make a two-player game.

Special Decks

Special decks have been added to the bot, and they can be used by starting the game with !uno [deck], where [deck] is the name of the deck you'd like to use. If you omit a deck name, the traditional UNO deck is used. A brief description of each deck follows.

  • Traditional UNO deck: (1) C 0 (2) C 1-9/S/R/D (4) W/WD
  • Special deck 'crazy': (1) C 0-9 (4) C S/R/D (10) W/WD
  • Special deck 'three': (0) Y (3) RGB 0-9 (1) RGB S/R/D (3) W (6) WD
  • Special deck 'reds': (5) R 0-9 (4) R S/R/D (1) GBY 1-9/S/R/D (5) W/WD
  • Special deck 'eights': (1) C 0-2/S/R (2) C 3-7,9 (8) C 8 (2) C D

For example, the 'three' deck has 0 yellow cards, 3 each of the red, green, and blue numbered cards, 1 each of the red, green, and blue skip, reverse, and draw two cards, 3 wild cards, and 6 wild draw four cards.

Rules

  • No cheating, no cheating, no cheating!
  • Several commands have been provided for the convenience of players but have the potential to be abused. These commands include !remove, !remove <nick>, !skip, and !stop. Players should not !remove themselves and rejoin if they are not happy with the hand they were dealt. The !remove command can be used if you need to leave, and !remove <nick> can be used if a player has been unresponsive for a couple turns. You can also consider using !skip to skip an unresponsive user. The !stop command should generally be used only if you're playing in a two-player game with kaitlyn. Otherwise, !remove yourself.
  • Any abuse of these commands will result in a single warning and then a lengthy ban.

Commands

Command Description
!uno [deck] Start a new game
!stop Stop a game already in progress
!pause Pause or resume a game
!remove [nick] Remove yourself or someone else
!unowon [nick] Display number of games won
!unotop10 [games/wins/21] Show top 10 statistics
!unostats Display stats for this month
!unorecords Display all-time statistics
!unotop3last Top 3 players last month
jo Join a game
jo msg Join and have the bot send cards in message instead of notice
jo <cc> Join and have your nick be the given color code (2-14)
cc <cc> Change your nick color to the given color code (2-14)
pl <card> Play the indicated card
dr Draw a card
pa Pass to the next player
co <color> Pick a color after playing a wild card
ca Display your hand of cards
cd Show the current top card
tu Show the current player
od Display the player order
ct Show how many cards everyone has
st Display game stats
ti Display the game time