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Phase 10 is a card game created in 1982 by Kenneth Johnson and sold by Mattel, which purchased the rights from Fundex Games in 2010. [1] Phase 10 is based on a variant of rummy known as contract rummy. It consists of a special deck equivalent to two regular decks of cards, and can be played by two to six people.
In any given game, you’ll need between two-to-10 players. Typically, an UNO game lasts between five and 15 minutes, depending on the number of players and their strategies, says Wyland; so ...
Uno (/ ˈ uː n oʊ /; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized as UNO, is a proprietary American shedding-type card game originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, that housed International Games Inc., a gaming company acquired by Mattel on January 23, 1992.
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Fundex's best selling game was Phase 10, which is the second best selling card game in the world, behind Uno. The rights to Phase 10 were sold to Uno-maker Mattel in 2010. In 2012, Fundex Games filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of Indiana. [2] [3] The assets of the company were acquired in a bankruptcy auction by Poof-Slinky, Inc. [4]
Merle Robbins (September 12, 1911 – January 14, 1984) was an American barber from Reading, Ohio, who invented the card game UNO. [1] In 1971, he invented UNO to resolve an argument with his son Ray, a teacher, about the rules of Crazy Eights. [2] The original decks were designed and made on the family dining room table.
Contract rummy is a Rummy card game, based on gin rummy played by 3 to 8 players. [1] It appeared in the United States during the Second World War. [2] The game is also known as Combination rummy, Deuces Wild Rummy and Joker rummy, and a proprietary version of the game called Phase 10 was published in 1982.