By Robin Bruno
It’s game night, whether that be with friends or family, everyone is eager to play. But no one knows what to pick, I know! Uno, it’s familiar and simple.
But it’s all fun and games until people are yelling at each other and poor little Jimmy is crying in the corner.
Before we get into all the broken friendships, let’s learn about our 55 year old enemy.
Uno was created by Merle Robbins, who was a barber in Ohio in 1971. His wife had printed and sold roughly “5,000 copies of the game” and would travel around the US to sell them.
They eventually sold the rights to the game, and it just so happens that our good ‘ol friend Mattel bought them. Mattel has been creating different variants of uno in order to spice up the original uno game to the max!
The game is very affordable and even has many different versions being added constantly. According to CNN, “Uno currently holds the top spot in the traditional games category,” which is how you know it’s a classic.
Since the game is so popular, many have developed different sets of rules for the game, often leading to arguments.
An example of this comes from a former BHS student, Sean Christian George Beaudoux Jr. He was playing Uno with a group of friends when they, “Made a friend hit with all the plus cards, he had ended up with 50-ish cards.”
Casual and playful targeting of one friend is completely normal when it comes to board games.
But that targeting can be scaring on a person’s brain, especially when one person sabotages the entire game just to be a pest.
An example of this comes from a BHS student, Ryan Alexander Afable, who purposefully drew, “The whole deck so I had every plus card.” He had sacrificed himself just to make other people suffer.
Sometimes, you hear about people making selfless decisions for the greater good for the majority. But this student chose to make everyone suffer, and who knows if they even deserved it?
At the end of the day, Uno may look and feel like a normal card game that you can casually play with friends or family, but it is something much more sinister than that.
It proves that even a small deck of colorful cards and a lot of passive-aggressive yelling, can test friendships and even break them.
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