<P> SKIP - BO / skip - boo / is a commercial version of the card game Spite and Malice . In 1967, Minnie Hazel "Skip" Bowman of Brownfield, Texas, began producing a boxed edition of the game under the name SKIP - BO . In 1980 the game was purchased by International Games, which was subsequently bought by Mattel in 1992 . A mobile version of the game for iOS was released by Magmic in September, 2013 . There is a new version called "SKIP - BO Mod" that comes in a blue and white case . </P> <P> The deck consists of 162 cards, twelve each of the numbers 1 through 12 and eighteen "SKIP - BO" wild cards which may be played as any number . Alternatively, the 162 cards could be three regular decks of playing cards, including the jokers, with ace to queen corresponding to 1 to 12 and the kings and jokers corresponding to the SKIP - BO cards . Before 1980, the commercial game consisted of four decks of regular playing cards with eight SKIP - BO cards replacing the standard two jokers in each deck . In addition, the aces, twos and threes in the fourth deck were marked SKIP - BO . The remainder of the fourth deck was discarded . </P>

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