<P> The object of the game is to be the first person to complete all ten phases . In the case of two players completing the last phase in the same hand, the player who completed the last phase with the lowest overall score is the winner . If those scores also happen to be tied, a tiebreaker round is played where the tying players attempt to complete phase ten (or in variants, the last phase each player had tried to complete in the previous round). </P> <P> For each hand, each player's object is to complete and lay down the current phase, and then rid their hand of remaining cards by discarding them on laid - down Phases, called "hitting". The player who does this first wins the hand and scores no penalty; all other players earn penalty points according to the value of cards remaining in their hand . </P> <P> There are one hundred and eight cards in a deck: </P> <Ul> <Li> ninety - six numbered cards: two of each value from one through twelve, in each of four colors . Therefore, there are 24 cards of each color and eight of each value . </Li> <Li> eight Wild cards; </Li> <Li> four Skip cards; </Li> </Ul>

How many cards are in a deck of phase 10