He draws five cards from the deck and picks them up as cards in hand. The player to the left of the dealer begins the game.
The remaining cards are placed in a draw pile (card stock) in the middle of the table.
The topmost card is turned over by the players and placed face up on the pile. The cards are not viewed and are laid out in front of the players in a face-down pile (player pile). In a game with 2 to 4 players each player receives 30 cards, with 5 or 6 players only 20 cards. The game material consists of a total of 162 cards, including 144 cards in 12 colored card sets with the numbers 1 to 12 and 18 skip-bo cards that play the role of jokers in the game.Īt the beginning of the game, a dealer is determined who shuffles the playing cards and distributes them to all players. For this you use your hand cards including some jokers, as well as the cards of your own auxiliary pile, based on the templates of the other players. 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. 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.