Crazy Eights
BGG Geek Rating
2.5
BGG Average Rating
2.2
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BGG Ranking
#29475
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Players
2-5
Weight
1.1
Playtime
20 min
Age
4+
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🏢 Publishers
Anker Play Products
ASS Altenburger Spielkarten
Avid Press
Bazoo Global
Berliner Spielkarten
Cardinal
Cartamundi
Creative Child Games
Disney/Pixar
E. E. Fairchild Corporation
eeBoo
F.X. Schmid
Fundex
General Mills
Global Partner
Golden
HABA
Haywire Group
Identity Games International B.V.
JA-RU Inc.
Korea Boardgames
KOSMOS
MGA Entertainment
Modiano
Noris Spiele
Oblak
Oetinger Spiele
Playskool
P:OS Handels GmbH
Pressman Toy Corp.
(Public Domain)
Ravensburger
Shuffle
Super Impulse
TCG TOYS
The United States Playing Card Company
ThinkFun
Tonka Corporation
Toysmith
University Games
(Unknown)
Walt Disney Productions (Disney)
Wendy's
Whitman
📖 About This Game
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.
