Play Four Colors (UNO alternative)

Four Colors game info

• Family: Matching card games
• Number of players: 2 to 10 (max 4 on our website)
• Cards: 108 cards (custom deck)
• Game length: 15 minutes per round
• Random chance: high

Players and cards

Four Colors is played with 2 or more players using a custom simplified card deck.

In total there are 108 cards in a Four Colors deck.

Number cards (80 in deck, 20 of each color)

Cards with a number from 0 to 9. Each number appears twice in a color, and there are four colors (red, green, blue, yellow).

Action cards

• Draw Two card (8 in deck, 2 of each color): The next player has to draw two cards and has to skip a turn.
• Skip card (8 in deck, 2 of each color): The next player has to skip a turn.
• Reverse card (8 in deck, 2 of each color): The playing direction is reversed.

Draw Two, Skip and Reverse are referred to as action cards.

Wild cards

• Wild card (4 in deck): Can be played on any card, and allows to choose the color to play.
• Wild Draw Four card (4 in deck): Can be played on any card, but only when no other cards can be played. Allows to choose the color that has to be played. The next player has to draw four cards.

Goal

The goal in Four Colors (as in UNO) is to get rid of your cards by matching color or number with the card on the table. The first player that gets rid of all their cards wins the round.

Deal

At the start of a round each player is dealt 7 cards, one at a time. The remaining cards are placed face-down in the middle of the table. The top card is flipped and is the start of the discard pile.

Gameplay

The player to the left of the dealer starts. The playing direction at the start of the game is clockwise, but it can be changed during the game with the Reverse Card.

During a turn, a player has three options:

• Play a card that matches the top card in the discard pile in terms of color, number, or symbol.
• Play a Wild card or a Wild Draw Four card.
• Draw the top card from the deck by pressing the face-down stack in the middle of the table. If the drawn card can be played, the player is allowed to play it immediately. No other card can be played.

When you have only one card left, you have to press the 1 Button to be able to finish the game in the next round. If you don’t press this button, your opponents can do it instead and you will have to draw two cards.

Above the 1 Button there is a little square indicating the current color of play.

Scoring

The first player that gets rid of their last card wins the round. He scores points based on the cards that are held by the other players at the end of the round:

• Number cards: face value
• Draw Two card, Skip card and Reverse card: 20 points
• Wild card and Wild Draw Four card: 50 points

Similar Games

Four Colors (and UNO) are based on the Crazy Eights card game. Other card games similar to Four Colors are Spite and Malice, Mau Mau, Pesten and Phase 10.

System requirements

Four Colors can be played in all modern browsers, on all device types (desktop, tablet, mobile), and on all operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, ...).