UNO Bonanza

I decided to spice things up in my neighborhood with a little bit of UNO and boy has it been a blast. All of the card type games people know are pretty simple and all use a regular deck of cards. The other night when i brought out my deck of uno cards. Everyone's eyes lit up. The had never seen cards like that: so full of colors and designs. They even feel differently than regular cards because they're coated in a thicker layer of plastic. I almost didn't need to teach a new game because having new cards might have been enough. But then we started to play. I explained it in Amharic and surprisingly they got it after a number of rounds. And really once one person's light bulb went on- they were able to tell the rules to the others. So the first night we played, we played sitting in a circle on the dirt floor with adults and kids cheering and yelling until 11:30 at night. The next night another group of neighbors heard about the game. Our game started with three and by the end of the evening we had 9 people playing and I was begging to go home so I could go to bed (I had work the next day). So there you go. These cards are pretty popular. A new and fun game. Some people have even got it down to a science- perfectly peeking over people's shoulders or planning when their draw 4 can be most effective. I'd better watch out or else I'm gonna end up loosing all the time!