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Larger 1999 edition box front
Skip-Bo Original 1967 edition
Family Game.

Skip-Bo (1967)

Players
2–6
Best: 4
Playing time
20–20 min
Age
8+
5.67
Average rating
10,216
Ratings
1.19/5
Weight
#13536
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Alternate names:Skip-Bo 50th Anniversary Edition +3 more
Designer:Hazel "Skip" Bowman
Publisher:AMIGO +7 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 2.4, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity2.4
Theme5.0

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Overview

Each player is dealt a stockpile of 30 cards. The winner will be whoever manages to empty their stockpile first. Cards are played onto four shared building piles in numerical sequence from 1 to 12. On each turn, a player draws until they have five cards in their hand, and then plays cards from: their hand, a top card of their discard piles, or their stockpile. At the end of their turn, a player must discard onto one of their four personal discard piles. Strategy involves the organizing of cards into the discard piles, care in not setting up the next players for good plays, knowing when to play from which option, and especially the timing of playing a valuable "Skip-bo" wildcard.

Skip-bo is based on Traditional Card Games: Spite and Malice.

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