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n. A card game in which players try to rid themselves of their cards by playing a matching rank or suit on the previous card played, having to draw an additional card if unable to do this; a player who plays an eight can dictate the suit to be played next.
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Crazy Eights is a shedding-type card game for two to seven players. The object of the game is to be the first to get rid of all the player's cards to a discard pile. The game is considered a pre-extension of Switch and Mau Mau.
A standard 52-card deck is used when there are five or fewer players. When there are more than five players, two decks are shuffled together and all 104 cards are used.
Crazy Eights is a card game for two to seven players.
Crazy Eights may also refer to:
- Crazy 8 (store), chain of retail stores operated by Gymboree
- Crazy 8s (band), an American band
- Crazy Eights (film) a 2006 horror film
- CSX 8888 incident, nicknamed the "Crazy Eights incident" because of the locomotive's number
- Crazy Eight, gang of boys in the novel Spud
- Crazy 8, a villain killed in a fight with Spider-Man (Gerry Drew)
- Crazy eight, a variation of eight-ball pool
- Crazy 8, an item in Mario Kart 8 which carries eight items at once
- The Crazy Eight, nickname for 8th Infantry Division (United States)
- The Crazy Eights, nickname for 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)
Crazy Eights is a 2006 B-grade horror film that follows the story of six companions as they fill the last request of a dead friend. The film is distributed by the After Dark Horrorfest which annually releases an eight-part movie collection that typically is likened towards the movie genres of horror and thriller, Crazy Eights being part of the 2007 series released by the movie collection.
Usage examples of "crazy eights".
He was still dressed in his battle fatigues, having been shuttled back to Erie by one of the Crazy Eights.
He had totwonder whether any of the others-the pilots who took off in the ZAP fighters or the Crazy Eights-even made it.
It was too early to start searching the supermarkets again, and Ozzie had forbidden fooling around with real cards, so Mavranos had fetched from the Suburban a kids' Crazy Eights deck he'd got at a Carl's Jr.
When it's laid, it's played they say when they're playing rummy or Crazy Eights and someone makes a goofy-ass discard.
Peer over a windowsill and chances are you're going to watch the villains play Crazy Eights.
For six weeks I sat in lukewarm starch baths, feeling miserable and humiliated and stupid, listening through the open door as my mother and brother laughed and listened to Peter Tripp's countdown on the radio and played Crazy Eights.
Of the rollicking group (Dana, Sean, Marie, Jack, Karen, and several more) who became the Crazy Eights Exploration and Development Co.
The three of us sat down at the picnic table for a game of Crazy Eights.