Therefore, there are 24 cards of each color and eight of each value. ninety-six numbered cards: two of each value from one through twelve, in each of four colors.There are one hundred and eight cards in a deck: 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 the tying players attempt to complete phase ten (or in variants, the last phase each player had tried to complete in the previous round).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 person to complete all ten phases. In December 2010, Fundex sold the rights to Phase 10 to Mattel, and now develops and markets a line of games based on brands and other IP formerly exclusive to Mattel as well as Fundex's own brands. Phase 10 was Fundex's best selling product, selling over 32,600,000 units to date, making it the 2nd best-selling commercial card game behind Mattel's Uno. The game is named after ten phases (or melds) that a player must advance through in order to win. It requires a special deck or two regular decks of cards it can be played by two to six people. Phase 10 is based on a variant of rummy known as Liverpool Rummy, and is a member (along with Liverpool) of the contract rummy family. Phase 10 is a card game created in 1982 by Kenneth Johnson and sold by Mattel, which purchased the rights from Fundex Games in 2010. Saving important cards knowing when to put down those cards matching, ordering Cards used in Phase 10 (original version with colored Wild and Skip cards)

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