Talk:Crazy Eights

message: Is Uno really an extreme version of Crazy Eights? I played Crazy Eights as a kid, long before I head of Uno. Uno just looks like just a commercialized version of Crazy Eights, in the same way that Guestures is just a commercialized version of Charades.--65.25.240.107 00:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

message: An IP-based user posed the following question in the "draw cards" section:
 This part is really confusing. Can somebody explain it more clearly?
I've moved the comment here and notified the user, and left it in comment form in the article where it was placed.
--Quintote (talk) 04:17, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question on "draw cards" section 

message: I've tidied up this article a bit, and here's what's changed, just in case someone questions any of it:
"Crazy Eights" is the original game (reference: The Penguin Book of Card Games, David Parlett) and all this stuff about twos making you draw two, Aces skipping etc. is contamination from the game UNO. It's fine to list common variants of the game, but the article was very unclear about the difference between the basic game and its variants. Among other changes, I transferred the stuff about having to call "last card" to the variants section, deleted some bits in "Variants" that referred to the same rule twice, clarified some rules, and deleted a line about it being "usual" that both Aces and fours are skip cards -- "Citation needed", as they say.
Also deleted the strategy section, which was very short and only applied to a particular sub-variant. Really, there's almost nothing to say about strategy for this game, and what there is is very difficult to say because there are so many variants, but if anyone wants to give it a shot?
91.107.138.44 (talk) 14:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's unclear whether these variants of Crazy Eights came from Uno or whether Uno used incorporated these rules when creating their version of the game. It would be interesting to find this out.--RLent (talk) 21:33, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: we used to play a version of this at school called "splodge", roughly the same time as UNO was invented, so I don't think we were influenced by that as we were in the UK. the rules I remember are: reverse direction, miss a go, change suit, and pick up 2, though I can't remember which cards did what as I've played so many different versions over the years. one rule we did have however was that you had to call "splodge" when playing your next to last card, and "chippy" when laying your last card - the forfeit being to pick up a card. we also introduced a "hesitation" rule where if you hesitated (a consensus was needed to rule on this) you missed your go and picked up a card - it made for a fast game! 2A00:23C6:6C85:4601:3D20:FBFA:177A:3F5A (talk) 19:23, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I made some changes 

message: There's a point that has not been covered in the article. What happens when the discard pile begins with an 8? That is, the topmost card that the dealer reveals, is an 8? The rank to be lead is obviously 8 but since nobody has played that 8, it is not clear to me what becomes the suit to be lead? Please somebody explain what is done in this situation.--Alijsh (talk) 06:07, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  an obscure point 

message: The main description for this game does not provide an explicit explanation of the conditions for winning the game. In addition there is no explanation of how the information in the Scoring section relates to the preceding explanation. Could somebody in the know please explain how one wins, and how the point-based scoring fits in? Cricobr (talk) 17:20, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  how do you win this game? 

message: The lead says that "a standard 52-card deck" or "104 cards" are used to play the game. But the paragraph that follows says that "a joker can be blocked with any ace", suggesting that 54 or 108 cards are used. Considering all the variants this game has, I would not call this a contradiction, but it is still confusing. I suggest either clarifying when jokers are used or omitting the last paragraph from the lead. -- Marie Paradox (talk) 13:37, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've deleted the line about jokers. I assume it was someone trying to add one of a million unremarkable house rules, and in the wrong place. --Lord Belbury (talk) 11:54, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joker? Problem in the Lead