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Crazy Eights

Match suit or rank. Eights are wild — call the next suit. First empty hand wins. 2–6 seats, same ready-check and bots as the rest of the table.

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Crazy Eights key art — wild eights on green felt

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Tutorial

How to play

Shed every card in your hand. Match the discard pile by suit or rank. First player with an empty hand wins.

  1. 1
    Deal

    2–3 players get 7 cards; 4–6 players get 5. One card flips face-up as the starter. Play goes around the table.

  2. 2
    On your turn

    In the center of the table: a face-down draw pile and a face-up discard. Play a card that matches the discard’s suit or rank onto that community pile — or tap the draw pile if you can’t (or won’t) play. A legal draw can go straight onto the discard.

  3. 3
    Eights are wild

    Any 8 can be played on anything. After you drop an 8, you call the suit everyone must follow next (♣ ♦ ♥ ♠).

  4. 4
    Win

    Empty your hand first and you win. Everyone else is ranked by leftover cards (high face cards and eights hurt more in the scoreboard).

Strategy tips

  • Save eights for emergencies — they’re your only free escape when stuck on a bad suit. Don’t burn them early unless you need to dump a huge hand.
  • Call your long suit — after an 8, name the suit you hold most of so you can keep shedding next turns.
  • Dump high cards first when you have a choice — face cards score heavy if you’re stuck holding them at the end.
  • Watch hand counts — if someone is down to 1–2 cards, force a suit change with an 8 or block their rank if you can.
  • Draw with a plan — drawing isn’t only for “no legal play.” Sometimes you pass on a weak play to fish for a better dump or an eight.
  • Track the active suit chip in the center of the table so you don’t misplay after someone else called wild.

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