A Healthy Family Plays Games
Thursday, November 29th, 2007The holidays provide many opportunities to play games with your family. My family has a few card games we play over and over again. We play a modified version of Uno, called Slap Uno mostly. Many people play similar types of games that have different names, but if you are looking for a card game to play with your family, I recommend slap Uno. If you have never played regular Uno, I would check out the directions for that before attempting to play the modified version.
Slap Uno is the same as regular Uno except with one obvious difference, you slap cards. What this means is that if someone plays a blue three, and you have a blue three you can “slap” your blue three on top, and then the next person to play is the person who would normally play after you. The cards have to be exactly the same for you to be able to slap. For instance, if I have a yellow reverse and you have a blue reverse, you cannot slap it. You can slap wilds as well, but we limit it to two draw fours, just to be nice. This makes what is normally a child’s game really fast and exciting. It forces you to pay attention to ever card played, and not simply wait for your turn. Try it out this holiday season.
