Crazy Eights
Match the top card by suit or number to empty your hand. Eights are wild and change the suit.
the best bit: playing an eight and naming the one suit they don't have
- Players
- 2–7 (best with 3–5)
- Time
- 10–30 min
- Learn in
- Seconds
- Mood
- Chill
- Format
- Everyone for themselves
The 30-second version
Everyone gets a hand of cards. Take turns playing a card that matches the top of the pile by suit or by number. Can't play? Draw until you can. Eights are wild: play one anytime and choose the next suit. First to empty their hand wins.
honestly, just read this out and go.
Grab these
Set up
- Deal five cards each. With only two players, deal seven.
- Put the rest of the deck face down as a draw pile. Turn the top card face up next to it.
How to play
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Match
On your turn, play one card on the face-up pile that matches its suit or its number.
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Draw if you can't
No match? Draw from the pile until you get a card you can play, then play it.
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Play an eight
Eights are wild. Play one on anything and name the suit the next player has to match.
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Go out
The first player to play their last card wins the hand.
How to win
The first player to get rid of all their cards wins.
Once you know it
- Action cards
- Make 2s force the next player to draw two, and jacks skip the next player's turn.
From experience…
- If the draw pile runs out, shuffle the played cards, except the top one, into a new pile.
- Hold on to your eights. They get you out of trouble at the end.