UNO

From Stmargarets

UNO, what more can be said? The simple, classic children's game that nearly everyone knows how to play. Well, not in the St. Margaret's Community

Although, the UNO craze developed into one of the "regulars" custom making an entirely new "über" deck, that which was laminated, had completely redesigned cards, a matching case, and contained numbers and words in German. This revised version of UNO was aptly named "EINS", meaning "ONE" in German, in the same manner in which "UNO" means "ONE" in a number of romance languages.

Eins became a very popular game in the St. Margaret's Community from the very start. It replaced UNO as soon as it was released, and it received instant approval from nearly everyone who came in contact with the cards. The reason being, is that these cards were new, laminated, redesigned, and were user-friendly. These cards were much easier on the eyes, and were even much easier to stack once the game had concluded. Analysts say that this enabled the players to have more time efficiency in cleanup by up to 62%, enabling the players a longer time to play, with less time constraint.

Throughout the course of the school year, there were five "regulars" of Eins.

One notable player was Kristian Kiraly, son of Karch Kiraly, the professional AVP volleyball player. Kristian was constantly made fun of by the other "regulars" because one of the others discovered Kristian's Hungarian heritage. This started out simply as a joke, but soon evolved into a daily occurrence, resulting in Kristian being given the name "Cheating Hungarian" or "Kristian the Hungarian." It can be said that this was a very facetious action on the "regulars'" part, but as time progressed, it appeared as if Kristian did not mind the constant comments about being Hungarian. In fact, Kristian even referred to himself as a Hungarian, and referred to some of his family members as Hungarians. Currently, Kristian has established his own informal corporation, Kristian the Hungarian, Inc. You can visit his website [1]here http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1391/712299611_f849a8ad53.jpg?v=0

On another note, two of the five "regulars" of Eins, Ian and Kevin developed attitudes toward the creator, and made a mutual agreement to boycott Eins for the course of 1-2 weeks. Despite their efforts, Eins still remained strong, having three of the five devoted members playing the game to their heart's content periodically throughout the day.

It can be said that because of Ian's and Kevin's boycotting of the game, not much changed. However, during their absence, the three remaining players realized that it was much better without the two players who had decided to boycott, and developed a new strategy called the "Endless Game", or "Endless Eins", where the remaining players would purposely sacrifice their chance of winning the game, in order to prevent new players from taking part in the next game by "forgetting" to call Eins when they played their second to last card. In accordance, the other players would yell "Eins", forcing the player to draw 2 additional cards from the deck. This type of play would continue until there was a time constraint, a mutual agreement between the remaining players, or until the additional players wishing to play in the next game would leave.

Eins continues to be a supported and treasured game in the St. Margaret's Community. Even many of the Administrators of the school approve of the game.

Eins became a popular game from the start, and managed to overthrow the game of UNO, that the five players had grown to love over their time at the "fishbowl."

Eins is not currently longer in session, due to summer vacation, but it will surely recommence in the 2007-2008 school year. The Eins research team will be making extensive revisions to the popular game over the summer vacation.

These revisions will most likely result in confusion for the two boycotters when they decide to play the game in the coming year, as great changes are expected over the summer.