What do you think about the rules? What is fun, what's not? What else could we try?

Are there strategic plays? Given the numbers available are 0 through 9, how many turns are required before we get to 21? Generally, if you have a choice of two cards, should you play the smaller or larger one?.

Here are two areas of discussion we could have pursued: The most interesting point was asking J2 the value of a wild card he had played onto a stack with value 5 and he replied '5+5+5+1.' He did this again several times, showing a couple of things about his thinking: first, he wasn't really subtracting, he was filling in a gap, he is comfortable with some number bonds (often his first step is to get to 20 or 10, and he likes adding by 5s if there is room.įor several reasons, we just played the game and didn't talk a lot about the structure. Overall, I think the game was fairly enjoyable.

draw 2 and draw 4 lead the next player to draw extra cards (so it helps an opponent).

wild automatically take the stack to 21 if the player can say what value is required.

reverse and skip cards can be played at any time (perhaps I should have restricted it to play on a card of the same color?).numerical cards played are all added, up to 21, with the last player able to play collecting the stack.everyone is dealt 7 cards at the start, you draw a card every time you play one, so should stay with a 7 card hand.I considered removing the non-numerical cards, but instead made up the following rules: Tonight, three of us played a version of 21 with the UNO cards. I'm working through the games and activities listed on this page of ideas for J1's school. What material did we use: pack of UNO cards

Playing cards 21 game