
The aim of the game is to be the first to completely discard your own deck of cards. Since then, the game has been distributed by Mattel in numerous editions and versions, such as a compact or deluxe version. In 1987 a German version of Amigo was released and in 1992 another German version by Mattel. International Games bought the rights to the game in 1980, and later International Games was bought by Mattel. It was published in 1967 by Minnie Hazel "Skip" Bowman (1915-2001) and produced by Danny Fuhrmann in Texas (The Skip-bo Company). Skip-Bo is a commercial version of the classic card game Spite and Malice. The game ends when one player gets rid of all the cards in their Stock Pile.Skip-Bo (also Pass auf or Aces out) is a card game with 144 number cards and 18 Skip-Bo cards for two to six players. During a player's turn, they can put out a card they have previously discarded, as long as it is on top of the corresponding Discard Pile. There is no limit to how many cards can be in a Discard Pile, or what order they should be in. There are four Discard Piles for each player, and you cannot use another player's cards from their Discard Piles.

When you are to end your turn, put down one card from your hand to a Discard Pile. Once a building pile reaches 12, it is automatically cleared. There are four spaces for Building Piles which any player can add to on their turn. If you put out all five cards in the same turn (not counting the card you put down to end your turn), you can draw 5 more from the Draw Pile.

If you already have cards in your hand from a previous turn, draw as many cards as it will take to reach five cards. When it is your turn, draw five cards from the Draw Pile. The main objective is to get rid of all the cards in the Stock Pile. These cards are placed face down on the table, with the top card turned over for all players to see. These are represented in-game with the letter "W".Įach player is dealt 10 cards to their Stock Pile. The cards used in Skip-Bo go from 1-12, and there are "wild" cards called Skip-Bo cards also in the deck. There is currently no way to play with two or more human players. At the start of the game, you can pick how many computer players you wish to play against. This game is to be played with 2-4 players. Rather than keep track of points, we just played until the first person put out all their stock pile cards. The rules are based on how my family used to play, which I believe are the rules for "quick play". This is a text game written in Python and based on the card game "Skip Bo".
