Skip Everyone Card in UNO No Mercy: Rules and How It Works
The Skip Everyone card in UNO No Mercy skips every other player at the table and hands the turn straight back to you. It is a colored action card, with 12 in the 168-card deck, three per color. You play it on a matching color or on another Skip Everyone, and never onto a live draw stack.
What the card does and how many are in the deck
Skip Everyone is one of the six colored action cards in UNO No Mercy. When you play it, every other player loses their turn and you play again at once. Direction stays as it was, nobody draws, and the pile takes the color of the Skip Everyone.
| Skip Everyone | Detail |
|---|---|
| Copies in the deck | 12, three per color, out of 168 cards |
| Card type | Colored action card. Normal color match, not the wild rule. |
| Draw value | None. It cannot join a draw stack. |
| Who plays next | You. Every other player is skipped. |
Classic UNO has eight Skips in 108 cards. No Mercy has twelve Skips and twelve Skip Everyones in 168, so double turns come up often.
When you can play it
The same matching rule as every other colored card:
- On any card of the same color. A green Skip Everyone goes on a green 4, a green Reverse, or a green Draw 2 whose penalty has already been taken.
- On another Skip Everyone of any color. The pile then changes to the color you played.
- After a wild, on the color that was chosen.
The one time it is not legal is while a draw stack is live. Skip Everyone has no draw value, so it cannot go onto a +2, +4, +6 or +10 that is still waiting to be answered, in any stacking mode. You stack a draw card of your own or take the penalty.
What happens next
Who is skipped. Everyone except you. With four players, the other three are passed over. With three, the other two.
Your second turn. An ordinary turn, with the Skip Everyone you just played as the top card. Your next card has to be legal on it: the same color, another Skip Everyone, or a wild. If nothing fits, you draw from the deck as usual.
The player after you. When your second turn ends, play moves to the same neighbour it would have reached anyway. Direction has not changed.
Draw stacks. A stack can never sit underneath a Skip Everyone, but one can start on top of it: play a matching Draw 2 or Draw 4 on your second turn and the next player is answering it before they have played a card.
Edge cases and the mistake people make
- Two players. Skipping everyone else means skipping one person, so it plays exactly like a Skip. You go again.
- As your last card. You win on the spot. There is no second turn to take.
- Down to one card. If playing it leaves you on one card, the last-card call applies before you carry on, the same as after any other card. In Open Mercy that is the MERCY! button.
- Two in a row. A Skip Everyone is legal on a Skip Everyone, so you can chain them and take a third turn.
- On top of a Discard All. Pick a Skip Everyone as the top card of a Discard All and its effect applies: you play again after the dump.
Skip Everyone vs the regular Skip
Both follow the same matching rule and neither can be played onto a live draw stack. The difference is what happens to the turn.
| Question | Skip | Skip Everyone |
|---|---|---|
| Who loses a turn | The next player only | Every other player |
| Who plays next | The player after the next one | You |
| With two players | You go again | You go again |
| One on the other | Needs a color match | Needs a color match |
A Skip is aimed at one person, usually the player about to go out. A Skip Everyone is aimed at yourself: with three or more players it is the simplest way to play two cards back to back.
Strategy
- Pair it with a card you were going to play anyway. The second card must match its color, so play it when you hold another card of that color and clear two cards instead of one.
- Use it to finish. Two cards left, one of them a Skip Everyone, is a win if the other is legal on it: play it, make the last-card call, then play out before anyone else gets a turn.
- Follow it with a draw card. Skip Everyone then a matching Draw 2 or Draw 4 lands a stack on your neighbour before the table can change color.
- Do not count it as defense. It cannot answer a draw stack. A hand of Skip Everyones and numbers is still wide open to a +10.
Frequently asked questions
It means every other player at the table loses their turn and you play again immediately. It is a colored action card, so it follows the normal matching rule: play it on its color or on another Skip Everyone. The direction of play does not change and nobody draws.
Twelve. There are three in each of the four colors, red, blue, green and yellow, in the 168-card deck. That is the same count as the regular Skip, the Reverse, the Draw 2, the colored Draw 4 and the Discard All, which also come three per color.
With two players it works exactly like a regular Skip. Skipping everyone else means skipping your one opponent, so you play again. The card still has to match the color on the pile or sit on another Skip Everyone, and it still cannot be played while a draw stack is live.
Only after the penalty has been drawn. Once someone has taken the stack, the draw card on top is just the current color, and a Skip Everyone of that color is legal on it. While the stack is still live, no. Skip Everyone has no draw value, so it cannot be played into a stack in any stacking mode.
A Skip makes the next player lose their turn, and the player after them goes. Skip Everyone makes every other player lose their turn, and you go again. With two players the two cards do the same thing. With three or more, Skip Everyone is a double turn and Skip is not.
Try it in a real game
Play a Skip Everyone, take the double turn, and see how fast a hand ends. Free, no download, no login.