A Cincinnati Barber Named Merle Robbins Invented Uno! | Where's the Fun from?
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Cincinnati Barber Merle Robbins and his son Ray designed one of the most popular games in the world in Uno, and gave us so much fun and connection. This is their story.
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It all fun games until the game ruins ur friendship
But all jokes aside, this is the best card game ever
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This is the first I've seen of your channel, how the Hell do you not have more views?
This is really informative stuff and has a lot of history behind a simple card game that I never thought I'd know.
Keep up the great content, mate!
Hey Sergeantmajormario, thanks! I’m just gonna keep tending this garden and see what happens. Thanks for the encouragement. Glad you appreciate the research and content. Seize the Play!
My son and I just had a good time watching the video while playing, you guessed it, Uno!
Niiiiiice. Thanks for watching.
I’m on a board game and card game history binge.
Love me some Uno.
Glad you found us! Sorry for the late reply
I love this series, Tim!!!
Thanks, Mary. I’m having fun and glad you are too.
Thank you, Merle, for having the courage in your convictions. RIP.
I like the card game of uno
I love UNO. My daughter and I collect Uno decks for fun.
We have the Timeless Toys book behind you as well. It had the most thorough history of UNO I could find in a book. So it is displayed with our Green deck and our 10th anniversary briefcase.
Thanks much! I wrote Timeless Toys and love the fact that you have it displayed with your green Uno game. Seize the Play and thanks for watching!
@@SeizethePlay it is funny to me how many false or incomplete stories there are online about UNO's history. I saw one just the other day that said Mattel bought it from Merle Robbins, they just completely left IGI out of the story.
My daughter just likes all the different Uno decks, especially the mini ones. But I like the history of it. I have a 1973c Red box deck and a 1972 Green box IGI deck. I am still on the hunt for one of the 1971 Robbins decks.
@@jeramyh9344 Awesome. A family that plays together stays together. Good luck on the hunt for that early Robbins game. I found the one I show in my book and in the video on EBay and was pumped to find it.
@@SeizethePlay yes, I got mine off EBay as well. They tried to sell it as a Robbins deck. But it says 1972c International Games Inc. right on the box.
I didn't mind though. As a collector I was just excited to have one from before the color change.
I tried joking with my daughter that I was going to bring it to UNO night at work. She did not find that even a little bit funny.
Thank you for the video! I am doing a project about Uno, and this information really helped me. May I ask, where did you find this information and maybe you can share some places where I could find out more?
My Crush! Thanks for commenting. Glad you like the video. For my book, Timeless Toys, I interviewed Merle Robbins's son John, Bob Tezak and Ed Akeman. You can find it here: tinyurl.com/jbywumjb. Good luck with your project!
@@SeizethePlay thank you!
Top quality content!
Where is the oddest/greatest place you've played a game of Uno?
I'll go first. In a tree house.
I worked at an amusement park for a summer and the day I moved into the employee dorms I spotted around 15 people playing an Uno game with what looked like at least 5 decks of cards. There were people holding around half a deck of cards in their hands; it was great. In that moment I knew I was gonna fit right in :)
@@Princessetch Awesome. You know a game is legendary when people buy multiple copies of it so they can play it with more people! Thanks for sharing!
My wife and I taught English to high school and college kids in Slovakia in 2002-2003, and I have never met a more competitive bunch of UNO players. They had created all kinds of rules that we didn't know about, and the game was incredibly fast-paced and competitive! Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for sharing the story, Ryan. It's fun to hear what games bring out in people!
At a Frito-Lay packaging plant. Making chips one minute, playing Uno and Uno flip the next. We now have twice weekly games and I bring a different deck every time we play.
It WASN'T INVENTED BY THIS GUY.
This game was in the PUBLIC Domain long before UNO came along.
It is CRAZY EIGHTS
Lots of variation have the last card rule.
Thanks for the comment. If you watch the video, I show how it was based on Crazy Eights (which is in the public domain), however Merle and his family made their own version, trademarked the name, game it it's now iconic look, tweaked the rules and maybe most importantly, popularized the game by selling it in RV parks, barber shops, butcher shops etc, willing it to success. : )
Crazy 8s- Cool time-killer card game to play with friends, decent rules
UNO- Cool card game for time killing to play with friends… and get into arguments, and ridiculous rounds.
@@ThatIsALakeSir Honestly they are the same, uno was to make the rules universal, as in one language or place you'd have different meanings to cards. Wild 4 is the joker, reverse and swap were or weren't included in certain games.
My family has the cards that are the second addition/after the green ones.
We don't have the box anymore but what years did they make those ones?
If i am correct the package stayed the same after the green until Mattel bought it?
Cool ❤❤❤
Uno is the best card game ever invented
I concur!
The barber shop was actually in Reading Ohio not Arlington Heights
Thanks Emily. What else do you know about it? So was the tavern also in Reading?
@@SeizethePlay I have no idea. All that I know is that they aren’t around any more. Most of the businesses in Reading during the 19th Century aren’t around any more. Theres a street here called Benson St and back then it had tons of shops like ice cream shops, barber shops, furniture stores, and a popular theatre called Emery Theater, However now Benson St is a Bridal District (the biggest one in Cincinnati and I think Ohio) and one of the buildings had a big Uno card painted on the side.
I do know that Merle Robbins son, Ray Robbins and his wife were teachers at Hilltop Elementary School (which is where I went to elementary school. But it’s also no longer around) and he handed out their Uno game and supposedly another game he invented called Thunder.
The original card decks have his home address on them which was a street called W Crest which is the same street my grandma lives on.
After seeing pictures of the original cards they look so familiar and I know I’ve played with them in the past. I just can’t remember if I own them, or if they were at my grandmas house, or if I played with them in elementary school.
I am curious how you found out all of this info? I am thinking of making a doc about Uno. Would you be able to connect with me?
Sorry, I don't come on here as much as I should! Sure thing, email me. tim(at)theplaymakers.com. I wrote the book, Timeless Toys in 2005 and interviewed John Robbins (Merl's son), Ed Akeman and even Bob Tezak (through letters). It's a great story, the story of Uno!
Interesting
Thanks for watching and commenting