Objective: Be the first player to get rid of all your cards.
Setup: Each player is dealt seven cards, and the rest form a draw pile, with the top card flipped to start the discard pile.
Gameplay: On your turn, you must play a card that matches the top card of the discard pile by either color or number. If you can't play, you draw a card. If you play a card, your turn ends; if you can't, your turn ends after drawing.
Special cards: Action cards like Skip, Reverse, Draw Two, and Wild cards can change the course of the game.
Winning the round: The first player to run out of cards wins the round. In the classic game, this player scores points based on the cards left in their opponents' hands, and the first to 500 points wins the game.