Skip cards: Skip cards have only one purpose: to cause another player to lose a turn.A 'wild' card may not be used as a 'skip' card.If the dealer starts the discard pile with a 'Wild' card, the card may be picked up by the first player.It must remain as that card until the hand is over. Once a 'wild' card has been played in a Phase, it cannot be replaced by the intended card and used elsewhere.Players can use as many “Wild” cards as they want as long as they use one natural card. More than one “Wild” card may be used in completing a Phase.Wild cards: A 'wild' card may be used in place of a number card, and can be used as any color to complete phase 8.With two regular decks of cards, the suits can represent the 4 different colors, kings wild, and jokers skip. Therefore, there are 24 cards of each color and 8 of each value. 96 numbered cards: 2 of each value from 1-12, in each of four colors.

The player who does this first wins the hand and scores no penalty all other players earn penalty points according to the value of cards remaining in their hand. If those scores also happen to be tied, a tiebreaker round is played where everyone attempts to complete the same phase as the last hand.įor each hand, each player's object is to complete and lay down the current phase, and then rid their hand of remaining cards by discarding them on laid-down Phases, called 'hitting'. In the case of two players completing the last phase in the same hand, the player with the lowest score out of the tied players is the winner. The object of the game is to be the first player to complete all 10 phases.

Phase 10 variations