You may play cards (in any acceptable order) from the top any of your four discards, your hand, or from your stockpiles during your turn. Players play cards into the building piles by starting at 1, from there they count forward in sequential order to 12, and then the pile is discarded and then the pile can start again from 1.Īt the beginning of your turn, you will always draw enough cards to bring your hand back up to 5. Skip-bo cards are wild and can be used in place of any other card. If a player uses all 5 cards that they drew, then they may draw another 5 cards and continue playing. That player will then discard 1 card from their hand into the discard pile which signals the end of their turn. That player may play cards from their hand or from the top of their stockpile until they have no further plays to make or until they no longer wish to make any further plays. The player to the left of the dealer draws 5 cards from the draw pile. There will be no cards in the building or discard piles until play is started.
Each player may also have up to 4 “DISCARD piles” near their stockpile. Near the draw pile up to 4 “BUILDING piles” may be created during play by the players. The rest of the deck is placed at the center of the play area and forms the “DRAW pile”. The stock pile will always have the top card face up. Players may not look at these cards or rearrange them in any way.Įach player then turns the top card on each of their own stock pile face up and leaves it at the top of the pile. These cards are dealt face down and will form each players “STOCK pile”. Play moves to the left of the dealer.Īfter the deck is shuffled, then deal 30 cards to each player if there are 2 to 4 players in the game or deal 20 cards to each player if there are 5 to 6 players in the game. All cards that were drawn are then shuffled back into the deck. If a player draws a skip-bo card, then that player must draw again until a number card is drawn. To determine who is dealer first, shuffle the deck, and then each player draws a single card from the deck. Overview Skip-Bo Deluxe is a card game in which you attempt to defeat up to 5 other players by being the first player to play all of their cards from their “card stock” pile.ġ Deluxe Storage tin, 162 cards (144 cards numbered 1 through 12 and 18 skip-bo cards), 1 scoring pad, and 1 pencil.