Click the “Skip-Bo” icon on the home screen to start playing.Ĭard game enthusiasts, gear up! Skip-Bo, the legendary card game we’ve all raved about, has leveled up and landed on mobile and PC via BlueStacks.Complete the Google Sign-in to install the game.Click on the “Skip-Bo” icon at the bottom in the app player.Download and install BlueStacks on your PC.Click on the “ Play Skip-Bo on PC” link on the top left.On the BlueStacks website, search “Skip-Bo” and click on the relevant result.Now that you know what Skip-Bo has to offer, it’s now time to dive into how you can play on your PC or Mac using BlueStacks. Journeying through its artistically detailed world, players can traverse levels, earn coins, and bask in the allure of its farm adventure mode.
Whether enjoying a solo game offline or engaging in online matches with friends, there’s a myriad of ways to immerse oneself in the Skip-Bo universe. With its widespread popularity acknowledged globally, players can now indulge in the official Skip-Bo game experience on-the-go. A licensed app exists on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store published by Mattel163.Longstanding fans and new players alike can celebrate, as this rendition stays true to the beloved classic. Various electronic handheld versions of Skip-Bo have been released over the years. The active player's partner(s) must remain silent.The active player can use their partner's stock and discard piles in addition to their own stock and discard piles.Each partnership has two stock piles and two sets of four discard piles (eight discard piles total) regardless of the number of individuals per partnership.The first player to reach 500 points wins.Īnother option for game play is to pair up players as partners. If multiple games are going to be played, either track the number of wins for each player or a point system may be used.įor the points scoring, the winning player receives 25 points for winning plus 5 points for each card in his/her opponents' stock piles. When a build pile reaches 12, it is removed from the board and that space becomes empty for another pile to be started play continues until one player has played their final start card.įor single rounds, whoever goes out first is the winner. When no more plays are available, the player discards one card to either an empty discard pile or on top of an existing one and play passes to the next player. If the player can play all five cards from their hand, they draw five more and continue playing. They must play either the next card in sequential order or a wild Skip-Bo card, using either cards in hand, the top card of their stock, or the top card of any of their four discard piles. Each turn the active player draws until they have five cards in hand, though there are cases of not drawing more cards to equal five cards, instead doing a draw of a certain number of cards. The shared play area allows up to four build piles, which must be started using either a "1" card or a Skip-Bo, and each player also has up to four personal discard piles. Each player is dealt 30 cards (recommended 10-15 for faster play) for their pile with only the top card visible, and a hand of five cards, and the remaining cards are placed face down to create a common draw pile. The player with the middle age goes first. The object of the game is to be the first player or team to empty their entire stock pile(s). Two to four people can play at a time as individuals, or, six or more players in teams (no more than three partnerships). The remainder of the fourth deck was discarded. In addition, the aces, twos and threes in the fourth deck were marked SKIP-BO. Before 1980, the commercial game consisted of four decks of regular playing cards with eight SKIP-BO cards replacing the standard two jokers in each deck. Alternatively, the 162 cards could be three regular decks of playing cards, including the jokers, with ace to queen corresponding to 1 to 12 and the kings and jokers corresponding to the SKIP-BO cards. The deck consists of 162 cards, twelve each of the numbers 1 through 12 and eighteen "SKIP-BO" wild cards which may be played as any number. There is a new version called "SKIP-BO Mod" that comes in a white and blue case.Ĭard and deck styles Individual Card A mobile version of the game for iOS was released by Magmic in September, 2013. In 1980 the game was purchased by International Games, which was subsequently bought by Mattel in 1992. In 1967, Minnie Hazel "Skip" Bowman (1915–2001) of Brownfield, Texas, began producing a boxed edition of the game under the name SKIP-BO. Skip-Bo is a commercial version of the card game Spite and Malice, a derivative of Russian Bank (also known as Crapette or Tunj), which in turn originates from Double Klondike (also called Double Solitaire).