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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Crazy Eights, Rummy, Gin rummy, Tri, Robbers' rummy, Spoons, Switch, Biriba, Rummikub, Khanhoo, Continental, Indian Marriage, Buraco, Phase 10, Three-card Monte, Four Color Cards, Kalooki, Mau Mau, Soureh, Kemps, Liverpool rummy, Screw Your Neighbour, Craits, Thirty-one, Penang Rummy, Shanghai rum, Old maid, Ten pennies, Conquian, Tonk, Rooky, Zioncheck, Desmoche, Concentration, Macau, Commerce, Mille, Schlafmutze, Go Fish, Quiddler, Literature, Wyatt Earp, Gilet, Noddy, Pope Joan, Panguingue, Taki, Bing rummy, Dummy rummy, Last Card, Svoyi Koziri, Carioca, Three thirteen, Rumino, One Card, Chinchon, Happy Families, Indian Rummy, The Mad Magazine Card Game, Black or Red, Authors, Skitgubbe, Pens, BOOM-O, Five Crowns, Vampire, Whot!, Zigity. Excerpt: 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, much favoured in schools during the 1970s. A standard 52-card deck is used when there are fewer than six players. When there are more than five players, two decks are shuffled together and all 104 cards are used. There are many variations of the basic game, and a number of different names including Crates, UNO, Last One, Mau-Mau, Pesten, Rockaway, Spoons, Swedish Rummy, Switch, Last Card, Screw Your Neighbour, and Tschausepp. In Britain, it is often referred to as Black Jack (not to be confused with the casino card game Blackjack). The name Crazy Eights dates to the 1940s, derived from the military designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, Section 8. Bartok, Mao, Quango, Zar, Taki and UNO are more extreme variations, containing elements not covered in this entry. Eight cards are dealt to each player. The remaining cards of the...
