More of a Challenge than regular Uno I like this game more than the original Uno because I find it more of a challenge. I love that it has the most up to date movie photos on the cards. This game is worth the money and any Harry Potter fan or Uno fan young or old will get a kick out of this game.
Harry Potter Uno NOW are not the same cards as last year Children love this game as it like Uno with two special cards. One is a Howler card: your opponent must "howl" out all cards in hand. The other is an Invisibility card: you can cancel any special action your opponent tries to use. However, these are no longer the same cards as the original ones. In an order of May 2006, the cards were smaller and the pictures were not the same as when I purchased three sets in 2005. Yet the pictures in the ad matched those of 2005. Perhaps ToyrUs changed to another manufacturer? I still recommend this game for children who like Harry Potter.
Great game but I want the old cards.
Excellent game for Harry Potter fans. My family loves Harry Potter and Uno so this game is great. Its the best Harry Potter game I've seen yet. I would recommend this to anyone.
Fun For All Ages We've played Uno since I was a child. Its all about the group and enjoying each other while you play. I agree with all of the previous reviews. I just want to emphasize that all ages can play this game together. My four year old caught on very quickly and was able to play alone with her two older sisters. It is also a game the adults enjoy with the kids. We have great fun with it on our beach vacations on the rainy days. Easy to take on trips and car rides too!
Destined to become a classic My buddies and I have played card games since we were old enough to hold cards. The very first card game we ever played was traditional UNO. I say "traditional" because until recently, none of us had any idea that the UNO concept would be expanded to so many different franchises. But back in the 80's there was only one UNO.
Later, as my buddies and I grew older, we got into the Magic: The Gathering card game. We weren't necessarily very big D&D (Dungeons & Dragons, fyi) freaks or anything, we just liked the strategy involved in choosing different characters and the tactics of playing different spell cards. We had to stop playing, though, when our pastor told us that Magic: The Gathering was the work of Satan.
Various offshoots of the Magic card playing concept popped up, including cards for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, X-Files, X-Men, and Pokemon. I only mention Pokemon because it was so popular, not because we ever played it. We were way too old for Pokemon when it became big. But the other card games we played, and without guilt too, since our pastor was a Star Trek fan and we figured he'd have nothing against a card game based on it, or any other science fiction universe.
After my buddies and I finished school, got married, started careers, and began families, we still got together every Thursday evening for poker. We figured we'd outgrown the other card games and needed to be playing something more adult. We just couldn't see ourselves playing X-Men cards while smoking stogies and drinking whiskey. Even our beloved pastor would sometimes join us. He always said, "Nickel poker is a game of skill, and the good Lord's got nothing against skill. It's when you start wagering bills is when it becomes gambling." What the good padre didn't know was that we played nickel poker only when we knew he was coming. Otherwise, $100 buy ins was the norm.
I first saw Harry Potter UNO at my kid's birthday party. He got it as a gift, and all the kids seemed to love playing it. All I knew about Harry Potter was what I overheard from my kids and their friends talking about it. Back then I couldn't have told you the difference between a Dumbledore and a double door. After the party, I looked through the Harry Potter UNO cards and memories of my earliest youth came back to me. That Thursday evening, I suggested to my buddies we play Harry Potter UNO instead of poker. They all looked at me like I had grown a second head. I told them, "look guys, lets just play one round, and if you don't like it, we'll go back to seven-card stud." They agreed, and to their surprise, they had more fun than they could remember having playing any other card game. We added a wagering element, of course, just to keep things interesting. Unfortunately, we had to lie to our pastor about our Thursday nights, since we didn't think he'd be too happy about our switching from poker to the magic-practicing, devil-worshipping Harry Potter, especially when we added our not so little bets to the game. But all our other buddies soon caught the Harry Potter UNO bug, and now we're thinking of starting a city-wide tournament with a $500 entrance fee and $50,000 grand prize. We're pretty sure Harry Potter UNO will overtake poker as the most popular card game, especially with the tie-in to Harry Potter, which we all now love. I can talk to my kids now in a language they understand, and our whole family is much happier. Thank you Harry Potter UNO!
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