I love Uno, especially after a few drinks with a group of friends. It can be quite entertaining and I disagree that there is no strategy to it. For starters, you choose when to use a draw card or wildcard.
A great strategy is to wait for someone to make you draw cards and as a defence, plop your draw card down and make the next person pick up the total sum of those cards. The satisfaction of making someone draw 8 cards is almost orgasmic.
Or better still, do you know someone doesn't have a particular colour? Use a reverse and make them pick up another card. Does someone have two cards left and you don't want them to win? Throw down your skip card to skip them.
I think the chance aspect of getting the right card is no different than poker. You have to hope that you get the right cards in your hand or it's quite possibly game over.
Or maybe I am just retarded and this game appeals to me because of the pretty colours, haha.
OK, now this I get. If the conversation is good and the emphasis on the game is low, then it can be fine. But I will say, if you're drinking and you keep forgetting which way the game is going (because of reverses and skips, especially in small groups) it can be more annoying than fun. Plus you always get that one friend, that is paying WAY to close attention, and keeps yelling at people for taking too long on their turns. hahaha