Crazy Eights

(Uncredited)
BGG Geek Rating
5.1
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BGG Average Rating
4.5
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BGG Ranking
#29475
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Players
2-5
Weight
1.07/5.00
Playtime
20 min
Age
4+
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📂 Categories

Card Game Children's Game Number

🎨 Artists

Chris Raschka Lüders & Baran Saxton Freymann Walter Steinbeck

🏢 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.