Cover art for Crazy Eights

Crazy Eights

BGG
Avg rating
4.46
Bayes rating
5.10
Weight
1.07 (Light)
Players
2-5
Playtime
20 min
Ratings count
1,256

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Description

Public domain card game which plays with a regular deck of cards. The idea is to get rid of all your cards FIRST. Everyone gets some number of starting cards (like 5), and must play a matching card (colour/suit/value), or pick up 1 from the 'stock' pile, and either play THAT or pass.

There are many variants, according to Hoyle. Some have 8s as the wild card (any colour/value), while other use Jacks - hence the alternate names. All seem to have at least one 'pick up #' card, and one 'skip a turn' card.

Variants also include pick-up 2s, which could accumulate if more 2s were played consecutively (pick up 4, 6, or 8), and Jacks as the skip-a-turn. In other variants played with 4s as skip-a-turns, Aces as pick up 1s and Queen of Spades as pick up 5.

Crazy Eights is the game upon which the commercial UNO is based.



Mechanics

Hand Management Matching

Themes

Number Theme Cereal Games

Publishers

(Public Domain) (Unknown) ASS Altenburger Spielkarten Anker Play Products Avid Press Bazoo Global Berliner Spielkarten Cardinal Cartamundi Creative Child Games Disney/Pixar E. E. Fairchild Corporation F.X. Schmid Fundex General Mills Global Partner Golden HABA Haywire Group Identity Games International B.V. JA-RU Inc. KOSMOS Korea Boardgames MGA Entertainment Modiano Noris Spiele Oblak Oetinger Spiele P:OS Handels GmbH Playskool Pressman Toy Corp. Ravensburger Shuffle The United States Playing Card Company ThinkFun Tonka Corporation Toysmith U.S. Games Systems, Inc. University Games Walt Disney Productions (Disney) Wendy's Whitman eeBoo

Designers

(Uncredited)