Uno, of late, has taken over Sorry as the game of choice, which in turn displaced Monopoly from the top spot. I don’t know how long Uno will last, but it’s been going strong since the weekend. It has certain advantages over other games — well, one big advantage that I see: Papa willing plays with them. Sorry is just not his game, and I think he dislikes Monopoly more than I do. With those two games, he generally just watched and cheered on the kids; with Uno, he plays from time to time.
But not when the kids get crazy ideas like dealing out 50 cards each. And when the kids play games like this, they have to adapt the rules. After all, they’ve essentially divided the deck between them: what sense does a “Draw 2” card make when there are no cards to draw from? (Simple: just draw from the discard deck.)
How can you possibly manage to organize so many cards? Well, when there are two playing the “Reverse” and “Skip” cards essentially mean the player gets to play again. So just line up all those cards and play them one after another. (Never mind that “Reverse” wouldn’t work that way and would simply have no effect. They’re not worried about logic, just about having some fun. And thinning the herd somewhat.)