🎴 Crazy Eights

How to play

Crazy Eights is a shedding game against the CPU. You each start with seven cards and one card is turned up to start the pile. On your turn you play a card matching the current suit or the rank of the top card, and the first to empty their hand wins. Eights are wild: play one on anything and name the suit that must be followed.

• Click a card in your hand — plays it. Legal cards are outlined; an illegal one shows a message instead.
• Click the face-down draw pile — takes one card. Drawing does not end your turn, so you can keep drawing until something fits.
• Suit buttons — appear after you play an 8. Choose a suit and play continues in it.
• New Game button — reshuffles and deals seven cards each.

Scoring

No points are kept. The counters are your hand size, the CPU's hand size and the cards left in the stock. A play is legal when the card's suit equals the suit in force — the top card's suit, or the one you named after an 8 — or when its rank matches the top card. The CPU plays the first legal card it finds, picks a random suit for an 8, and draws one card when it has nothing.

Tips

• Hold your eights. An 8 is always playable, so it is worth more as an escape from an awkward suit than as an early play.
• When you do play an 8, name the suit you hold most of, not the one you just discarded from.
• Read the outlines rather than working the rules out each time — the hand shows every playable card at a glance.
• Drawing is free, but watch the stock count: once it empties you can no longer draw your way out.

Frequently asked questions