By the way, while we're all sitting around letting our cards dry out, I've been thinking about better ways to handle the draw and discard piles. It's just too annoying to use those snap rings. Open your hand's ring, pull a card, close your hand's ring, set your cards down (or hold them, or clip them off, or...), open the discard pile's ring, add your card, close the discard pile's ring... etc... etc..
So, what I was thinking was that it ought to be possible to build a draw/discard pile holder out of lexan (or other clear plastic). You'd load the draw deck on one side, and you'd discard into the other, which would have to be clear plastic so you can see the top card, of course. Anyway, it'd be a lot simpler than using rings on the deck, and it'd be fairly easy to pass around, too, which could perhaps even make the player's hand's rings unneccesary.
It'd have to be able to hold two standard decks (i.e. 108 cards, the max for UNO or any two-decks-with-jokers game) on each side. The design I was thinking of fabricating for testing would hold two stacks side by side. If you stand two card deck boxes upright shoulder-to-shoulder, the opening would be in the top so you could lift cards out of the draw side (which would have a thumb cutout to be able to grab the card) and drop it into the discard side.
I suppose you could also do it as a divided single box, too. Perhaps that would work better. If the draw/discard separator were movable, you'd only have to make the box big enough for one double-deck of cards (which would basically cut it in half). I think I may descide to fabricate it that way, actually.
Anyway, regardless of how it's done, a draw/discard box seems like a rather logical addition to ScubUNO, eh? Too bad ISOSAD's not large enough to get these things manufactured....
Well, anyway, there's my ramble. ISOSAD members, speak up with your comments. This constitutes the official February bored meeting, after all.
