Play Crazy Eights Online

Deal five cards each (seven with two players) and turn one card face up to start the discard pile. On your turn, play a card that matches the top card’s suit or rank, or play an eight. If nothing fits, draw from the stock until you can play. The first player to empty their hand wins the hand.

With the standard rule you keep drawing from the stock until you draw a card that fits, and then you play it. In Options you can switch to Draw one or Draw up to three: you stop after that many cards and pass if none of them fits.

Yes. Playing an eight as your last card wins the hand, and you don’t need to name a suit, because nobody plays after you.

Nothing in the classic game. Turn on Power cards and a Queen skips the next player, an Ace reverses the direction of play, and a 2 makes the next player draw two cards unless they put another 2 on top, which passes a bigger penalty along. With two players, a Queen or an Ace gives you another turn.

The hand’s winner scores every card left in the other hands: eights 50, kings, queens and jacks 10, aces 1, and every other card its number. The match goes to 50 points per player, so 200 with four players.

Seven each. With three, four or five players, five each. A two-player match goes to 100 points, or choose Single hand for a quick game.

It goes back into the stock, the stock is shuffled, and a new card is turned. The game never starts on an eight.

They are close relatives in the same family of shedding games, and each has its own set of special cards. This table plays classic Crazy Eights with only the wild eight; the optional power cards (Queen, Ace and 2) cover the most common house rules.

No. You may draw only when nothing in your hand fits, which is why the cards you can play are lifted and the others are dimmed.

The discard pile, except its top card, is shuffled into a new stock, up to three times in a hand. If nothing is left to draw and every player passes in turn, the hand is blocked: the player with the lowest hand scores the difference between each other hand and their own. If two players tie for lowest, nobody scores.

Choose Easy, Standard or Expert in Options. Easy plays a random card that fits and spends its eights straight away. Standard sheds its high cards and saves its eights. Expert also remembers which suits each player drew on and steers the suit away from them. No level sees your hand or the stock.

The practice game on this page works now against one to four computer opponents, with no download or sign-up. To play with friends, open a HopLobby lobby and send one link: our party games run in the browser too.