You start Uno with 7 cards in your hand in the standard game.

Quick Scoop: How many cards do you get in Uno?

Here’s how it usually works when you play classic Uno at the table:

  • Each player is dealt 7 cards at the beginning of the game.
  • This applies whether you’re playing with 2 players or a full group (up to 10 in many casual house rules).
  • The rest of the cards form the draw pile , and the top card is flipped to start the discard pile.

So if your argument at game night is “Do we get 5 or 7 cards?”, the official- style answer is firmly 7 cards per player.

Extra nerdy context (in case you’re curious)

  • A standard Uno deck has 108 cards total in most modern sets.
  • There are number cards (0–9) in four colors plus action cards like Skip, Reverse, Draw Two, and Wild/Wild Draw 4.
  • Some newer editions add a few extra wild-type cards (like Wild Shuffle Hands), but the starting hand is still 7 cards unless house rules say otherwise.

If your group has always dealt a different number “because that’s how we’ve always done it,” that’s just a house rule – fun, but not the standard rulebook way.

TL;DR: In normal Uno, you get 7 cards at the start of the game.

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