Mattel toymaker hunts for top Uno player for £3,500 a week

Toymaker Mattel is hunting for idiosyncratic to assistance beforehand its caller Uno crippled - and wild-card applicants are astir decidedly welcome.

The institution is asking enthusiasts of the paper crippled to use connected TikTok for a accidental astatine the part-time station of "Chief Uno Player".

The gig volition beryllium based successful New York for 4 weeks starting successful September.

Responsibilities see playing the caller game, Uno Quatro, for 4 hours a day, 4 days a week.

Applicants indispensable beryllium US residents and aged 18 oregon implicit to beryllium selected for the job, which pays $4,444.44 (£3,500) a week.

The institution did not respond erstwhile asked however galore radical had responded since the occupation connection was posted connected Tuesday.

A TikTok video announcing the relation had received astir 9,000 likes - and hundreds of replies - galore of them from accounts expressing interest. The deadline to use is 10 August.

"We're perpetually looking to make caller ways for fans to prosecute with Uno - and with the nationwide hunt for the first-ever Chief Uno Player, we're bringing in-person gameplay to fans successful a mode they've ne'er experienced before," Mattel's planetary caput of games, Ray Adler, said announcing the post.

The idiosyncratic selected for the occupation is expected to assistance make and prima successful societal media posts, springiness interviews and situation strangers to play the caller mentation of the classical game, which relies connected tiles alternatively of cards.

The institution besides warns that candidates indispensable beryllium capable to "sit for agelong periods, assistance and transportation 50 lbs, and acceptable up playing tables & tents connected location".

The stunt comes aft Mattel won plaudits for its occurrence successful stirring up excitement astir the Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.

But the toymaker is besides successful request of hits. It precocious reported income successful the April-June play of astir $1bn (£786m), down 12% compared with the anterior year.

Profits successful the 4th besides slumped to $27m, compared with $68m successful the erstwhile year.