{"id":2251,"date":"2025-06-08T21:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2025-06-08T21:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:25:43","slug":"crazy-8s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/crazy-8s\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy 8s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Name<\/td>Crazy 8s<\/td><\/tr>
Players<\/td>2-5<\/td><\/tr>
Type<\/td>Pattern Building<\/td><\/tr>
Style<\/td>NA<\/td><\/tr>
Complexity<\/td>Simple<\/td><\/tr>
RNG to Strategy Ratio<\/td>90%\/10%<\/td><\/tr>
Rating<\/td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr>
Rules<\/td>Wikipedia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/td>Board Game Geek<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crazy Eights is the game upon which the commercial UNO is based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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