until the 12 card is played.At this time, the build pile is removed and a new build pile may start again.(If the draw pile is depleted, then these used build piles are shuffled and placed on the draw pile location and become the new draw pile.)Įach player can have a maximum of two build piles. The rules specify that for 2 to 4 players each player should have a stock pile of 30 cards.For 5 or more players then each player should have a stock pile of 20 cards.įor faster games, a smaller stock of 10 or 15 cards can be used.For a long two player game, each stock pile could have 40 cards in it.The exact quantity is not especially important to game play, but all players should have the same amount.Įach build pile is started with the 1 card.After the 1 card is played then the 2 card may be played on top then the 3 card then the 4 card etc. The game starts with each player having a stock pile of cards.The goal of the game is to play all of the cards in your stock pile. The newer card configuration increased the difficulty of the game. Prior to 1980, the game consisted of 3 decks of regular playing cards with 6 SKIP-BO cards replacing the standard 2 jokers in each deck. The winner is the first to get rid of all the cards in his stock pile. Two to six people can play at a time, in pairs or individually. It includes 144 playing cards that have numbers on them ranging from 1 to 12 and 18 SKIP-BO cards totaling 162 cards. It is a commercial version of the card-game " Spite and Malice".
The company was subsequently bought by Mattel.
Hazel Bowman of Brownfield, Texas began producing a boxed edition of the game under the name Skip-bo. SKIP-BO( IPAEng|skɪpˈ-boʊ) is a popular card game.
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