NEW UNO 40th Anniversery Edition Card Game. Open Box but never Used.

NEW UNO 40th Anniversery Edition Card Game. Open Box but never Used. CELEBRATE UNO'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY WITH LIMITED EDITION RETRO PACKS UNO®! It has been 40 years since the first player screamed UNO® in anticipation of winning the iconic card game. Celebrating its 40th anniversary on January 11, 2011 in throwback style, Mattel will be offering limited edition retro cards to fans who have made UNO® part of their home over the past five decades. Created by a barber shop owner in Ohio in 1971, UNO® is the No. 1 card game in America with more than 200 million games sold in more than 80 countries and famous fans including Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Johnson, Neil Patrick Harris and Ryan Seacrest. About Uno: Uno, from Italian and Spanish for 'one'; stylized as UNO, is an American shedding-type card game that is played with a specially printed deck. The game's general principles put it into the Crazy Eights family of card games. The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. When his family and friends began to play more and more, he spent $8,000 to have 5,000 copies of the game made. He sold it from his barbershop at first, and local businesses began to sell it as well. Robbins later sold the rights to UNO to a group of friends headed by Robert Tezak, a funeral parlor owner in Joliet, Illinois, for $50,000 plus royalties of 10 cents per game.