Skip-Bo
It's from 1967, before you were born.
- Maker
- Hazel Bowman / Mattel
- Type
- Card game
- Debuted
- 1967
- Note
- Named after its inventor's nickname
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About
As of 2026, it's 59 years old.
Skip-Bo was created in 1967 by Minnie Hazel 'Skip' Bowman, who named the game after her own nickname before it was eventually acquired by Mattel. A sequencing card game, it tasks players with emptying their personal 'stock' pile by building shared piles up from 1 to 12, with wild 'Skip-Bo' cards to grease the works.
It's a satisfying, slightly mathy solitaire-style race that became a beloved staple of family game nights and grandparents' kitchen tables everywhere — simple to learn, genuinely tense in the endgame, and easy to play across generations.
Sequential, accessible, and grandma-approved, Skip-Bo is the number-stacking card game named after its inventor that became a multigenerational family fixture.
