The word surreptitiously has appeared in 67 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 23 in “How to Win Your Next UNO Game” by Deb Amlen:
The key to winning just about any multiplayer game is an artful combination of strategy, an ability to read your opponents’ minds and the luck of the draw.
Sometimes it is also about hoarding the action and wild cards so your opponents can’t have them, or surreptitiously sticking two or more cards together so that the other players think you are only putting down one. Not that I have ever tried anything like that, at least not when anyone was looking.
Fortunately, there are ways to increase your chances of winning at UNO, and not all of them involve subterfuge.
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