Crazy 8 Card Game

Playing this card forces the next player to draw two cards, unless they can play a card of the same rank. If they do so, the next player is obliged to pick up 2 cards or play a card of the same rank, and so on, until someone is forced to pick up the cards. This card can be set to Two or Ace, or disabled entirely. The player who is the first to have no cards left wins the game. The winning player collects from each other player the value of the cards remaining in that player’s hand as follows: Each eight = 50 points Each K, Q, J or 10 = 10 points.

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Crazy eights, popular children’s card game. The basic idea is to be the first to play all one’s cards to a communal discard pile. This game has a huge number of variations and many alternative names. Crazy Eights is a card game played by two or more players. It is played using a standard deck of cards or a specialty deck designed just for this game. It is a good interactive game that helps kids practice comparison and strategy. We have played this game with children as young as 5 with great success. Crazy Eights was one of the first card games I ever learned (under the name Olsen Olsen) and it's also one of the first card games I taught my 5 year old son. After I finished my other online card game, Idiot (a.k.a. Shithead ), I wanted to make another card game and Crazy Eights seemed like the obvious choice, especially since I wanted to make.

Crazy 8's is a family card game favorite at our house, and kids as young as 4 can easily join in on the fun if they understand the concept of the card's suit (which you explain using the pictures of diamonds, hearts, clubs, and spades) and how to match numbers (ranks). Here's how to play crazy 8's with your kids!

Of course, card games sometimes do have their challenges…

How to Play Crazy 8's: Step 1- Locate a full deck of cards!

Every time my kids want to play a card game, I open this drawer to pull out a deck, and find this mess!

And yes, they know that they are the ones that leave it like this!

So the first step (at my house anyway) is to grab a big pile of cards and then start grouping them into suits to see if we can actually put together a complete deck!

Step 2: Shuffle and Deal

And I might suggest that once you assemble a full deck, have an older sibling or adult conduct the first shuffle and be the dealer. Otherwise the game will go by very quickly as every player will just have the next card in the suit!

To play Crazy's 8s, deal five cards to each player.

The rest of the deck is placed in the center of the table, face down.

Take the top card from the deck, turn it over and place it beside the deck, forming the discard pile. (If the first card turned over is an eight, put it back on the bottom of the deck and turn up the next card.)

Step 3: Agree on the Rules of the Game

Here is how to play Crazy 8's:

The player to the left of the dealer discards a card from his hand that matches either the suit or the number (rank) of the top card in the discard pile.

If he has no such card, he takes one card from the deck, which he can either play (if it matches either the suit or the rank (number) of the face-up card), or he must add the card to his hand.

Play continues in the manner, with players matching the card at the top of the discard pile, or taking a card from the pile.

Eights are “wild” and can be put down at any time by the player who is taking a turn. The player who discards an eight chooses the suit his opponents must play next.

If a player discards a 2, the player to his left loses a turn and instead must take 2 cards from the deck.

If a player discards a 4, the player to his left loses a turn and instead must take 1 card from the deck.

The first player to use up all his cards wins.

Sound easy, right? But there is a point of large dispute here in the Rowley household on the exact rules of the game. See the hand below?

The card that is face up is a 7 of clubs. Now the way that I play (which of course we ALL KNOW is the “right way”!) is that the player has the right to decide based on strategy whether or not to discard his Jack of clubs, or either of the 7's that he is holding.

Strategically speaking, it would be in his best interest to discard the 7 of hearts, in the hopes that by the time his turn came around again, hearts would still be the suit being played, and he would have another opportunity to discard.

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The way certain grandparents that I know play- is that the player has no choice. Suit must always be played before rank. And therefore, the Jack of clubs is the only option.

My view is that a card game should be based on strategy and not only by chance. (Of course, I am smart enough to keep quiet about it when the grandparents are playing with the kids and I am using the opportunity to get something else done!)

But the choice of rules my friend is yours to decide.

Step 4: No Bleeding!

We try to teach the younger kids how to hold their cards so that others cannot see what is in their hands. The older ones will admonish them with “No bleeding!” and the little ones know what to do!

What card games does your family like to play? Leave a comment and share some inspiration!

Crazy Eights is a shedding-typecard game for two to seven players. The object of the game is to be the first player to discard all of their cards. The game is similar to Switch and Mau Mau.^[1]

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Originally this was played primarily by children with the left over cards not used in Euchre. Now a standard 52-card deck is used when there are five or fewer players. When there are more than five players, two decks are shuffled together and all 104 cards are used.

Origins[edit]

The game first appeared as Eights in the 1930s,^[1] and the name Crazy Eights dates to the 1940s, derived from the United States military designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, Section 8.^[2][3]

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There are many variations of the basic game, under names including Craits, Last Card, Mau-Mau, Switch, and Black Jack. Bartok, Mao, Taki, and Uno add further elements to the game.

David Parlett describes Crazy Eights as 'not so much a game as a basic pattern of play on which a wide variety of changes can be rung,' noting that players can easily invent and explore new rules.^[1]

Basic play[edit]

Five cards are dealt to each player (or seven in a two-player game).^[4] The remaining cards of the deck are placed face down at the center of the table as the stock pile. The top card is then turned face up to start the game as the first card in the discard pile.

Players discard by matching rank or suit with the top card of the discard pile, starting with the player left of the dealer. They can also play any 8 at any time, which allows them to declare the suit that the next player is to play; that player must then follow the named suit or play another 8. If a player is unable to play, that player draws cards from the stock pile until a play can be made, or until the stock pile is exhausted. If the player cannot play when the stock pile is exhausted, that player must pass the turn to the player on the left. A player may draw from the stock pile at any time, even when holding one or more playable cards.^[5]

As an example: Once 6♣ is played the next player:

1. can play 6♦, 6♥ or 6♠
2. can play any club
3. can play any 8 (then must declare a suit)
4. can draw from the stockpile and continue their turn

If the stock pile runs out, all played cards except for the top one are reshuffled to form a new stock.^[4]

The game ends as soon as one player has emptied their hand. That player collects a payment from each opponent equal to the point score of the cards remaining in that opponent's hand. 8s score 50, court cards 10 and all other cards face value. If the players run out of cards in the deck, the player with the lowest point score in their hand scores the difference between that hand and each opponent's hand.^[1]

The game can end with a special card, this includes two, queen or eight(wild) card.

The winner of the game is the first player to reach a specific number of points. For two players it is 100 points, three players 150, four 200, five 250, six 300 and for seven players 350.

Variations[edit]

Card game historian John McLeod describes Crazy Eights as 'one of the easiest games to modify by adding variations',^[4] and many variant rules exist. Common rules applied to cards include:

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Queens skip

Playing a Queen causes the next player to miss their turn.^[4]

Aces reverse direction

Playing an Ace reverses the direction of play.^[4]

Draw 2

Playing a two forces the next player to draw two cards, unless they can play another two. Multiple twos 'stack'; if a two is played in response to a two, the next player must draw four.^[4]

A popular variant of the game in the United States is Crazy Eights Countdown, where players start with a score of 8. A player's score determines how many cards they are dealt at the start of each round, and which rank of card is wild for them. (So initially, all players are dealt eight cards and 8s are wild for everyone; after one round, one player will be dealt seven cards and 7s will be wild for them, but 8s will be wild for everyone else.) The first player to reduce their score to zero wins the game.^[4]

See also[edit]

Crazy Eights

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdParlett, David (1996). Oxford Dictionary of Card Games. Oxford University Press. p. 291. ISBN0-19-869173-4.
2. ^Rauf, Don (2013). Simple rules for card games : instructions and strategy for twenty card games (1st ed.). New York: Potter Style. p. 25. ISBN978-0-7704-3385-7.
3. ^Rome, Ben H.; Hussey, Chris (2013). Games' most wanted : the top 10 book of players, pawns, and power-ups (1st ed.). University of Nebraska Press. ISBN978-1-59797-723-4.
4. ^ ^abcdefg'Crazy Eights - Card Game Rules'. www.pagat.com.
5. ^'How to Play Crazy Eights,' Bicycle, 2020, https://bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/crazy-eights/#:~:text=If%20unable%20to%20play%2C%20cards,exhausted%2C%20the%20player%20must%20pass.&text=That%20is%2C%20an%20eight%20may,(but%20never%20a%20number).