Uno

About

As of 2026, it's 55 years old.

Uno was created in 1971 by Ohio barber Merle Robbins, who designed it to settle a dispute with his son over the rules of Crazy Eights, then sold the printed decks out of his barbershop until the idea took off. It became one of the best-selling card games of all time.

It's also the cause of more household arguments than the family it was invented to placate — the eternal feuds over whether you can stack Draw Twos, whether you really have to say 'Uno,' and the sheer betrayal of a Draw Four dropped on the last card. Mattel has had to publicly referee these fights on social media.

Colorful, simple, and relationship-testing, Uno is the barber-shop card game that united a family and has been dividing every other family since 1971.