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Crazy Eights Rules
These are the rules I use for Crazy Eights. They're slightly different from the basic rules shown in the Wikipedia article, but this is how I originally learned it when I was a child (under the name Olsen Olsen).
- The purpose of the game is to get rid of all your cards.
- You can play any card of the same suit as the one at the top of the pile. Example: There's a club at the top of the pile, you can play any club.
- You can play any card of the same rank as the one at the top of the pile. Example: There's a six of clubs at the top of the pile, you can play any other six.
- You can play two or more cards of the same rank at the same time, but the first one of them must be the same suit or rank as the pile. Example: There's a club on the pile. You can play the 5 of clubs, the 5 of hearts and the 5 of diamonds all at the same time. Do this by selecting the cards (right click or Ctrl+click) on them in the order you want to play them. Once you've selected them, left click on any of them to play all the selected cards at once. If you are playing on an iPad or another tablet you can click a card and hold the finger on it for a second, then it will be selected. Select the ones you want to play together, and then tap on one of them to play them all together.
- If you have no card that you can play you can draw up to 3 cards from the deck. You can't draw if you have any cards that you can play in your hand. If you've drawn 3 cards and still can't play you must pass and the next player plays.
- You can always play an eight, and then you can change the suit to whatever you want. The game will prompt you for the suit after you click the eight.
- If the first card on the table is an eight when you start, then you are allowed to put down any card from your hand.
Crazy Eights Instructions To play a card from your hand, it must match the color or number of the first card in the pile. If you don’t have a playable card, click the pile to draw a card. Depending on the rules you set at the start of a game, you either draw one card per turn or keep drawing until you pull a playable card. Crazy Eights is a very popular game across the globe with a lot of variations and different names. It is also known as Crates, Last One, Swedish Rummy, Rockaway, Switch, and Pesten. The game is very easy to learn. So, let’s start our guide on How to play Crazy Eights. A 52 cards standard deck is used.
Crazy 8's Poker Video Poker Highlights. The 'Crazy 8's' variation of video poker is one that offers a pay scale that is somewhat similar to that of the Bonus Poker game, with a couple of exceptions. One of them is that the payout for two pairs is the same as one pair with Jacks or better. Crazy Eights is an addicting, card game that everyone played at some time. Around the world, Crazy Eights has many variations like “Uno”, Rummy, Mau Mau, Last one, Septica, Macao. Crazy Eights is a 2-5 player card game where players try to get rid of all their cards first and score the fewest points. The game starts with the dealer dealing 5 cards face down to each player. The remaining cards go in the middle of the table for the draw pile, and the top card is flipped face up next to the pile.
About Crazy Eights
This online version of the classic card game Crazy Eights was made by me. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture! 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 a game my son could play by himself.
The game is made using html+JavaScript+css with jQuery used for the animations. All the graphics used for the game I found at OpenClipArt, a great site with free graphics. The excellent playing card images were made by Nicu Buculei, and the player images were made by Gerald G.
Any comments, questions, ideas for other games or anything else can be sent to admin@cardgames.io.
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In Crazy Eights, playing an 8 card will change the current suit of the game. | |
| Type | Shedding |
|---|---|
| Players | 2+ |
| Skills required | Tactics and communication |
| Cards | 52 |
| Deck | French |
| Play | Clockwise and counter-clockwise |
| Playing time | Various |
| Random chance | Medium |
| Related games | |
| Mau Mau, Uno | |
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]
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]
There are many variations of the basic game, under names including Craits, Last Card, Mau-Mau, and Switch. 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]
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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:
- can play 6♦, 6♥ or 6♠
- can play any club
- can play any 8 (then must declare a suit)
- 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 not 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.
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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:
- 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 8 Wsop
References[edit]
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- ^ abcdParlett, David (1996). Oxford Dictionary of Card Games. Oxford University Press. p. 291. ISBN0-19-869173-4.
- ^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.
- ^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.
- ^ abcdefg'Crazy Eights - Card Game Rules'. www.pagat.com.
- ^'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).