Editing Crazy Eights (section)

==Origins==
The game first appeared as ''Eights'' in the 1930s,<ref name="parlett"/> and the name ''Crazy Eights'' dates to the 1940s, derived from the [[United States]] military designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, [[Section 8 (military)|Section 8]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rauf|first1=Don|title=Simple rules for card games : instructions and strategy for twenty card games|date=2013|publisher=Potter Style|location=New York|isbn=978-0-7704-3385-7|page=25|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ivs6ux0GyMC&pg=PT26}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Rome|first1=Ben H.|last2=Hussey|first2=Chris|title=Games' most wanted : the top 10 book of players, pawns, and power-ups|date=2013|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-1-59797-723-4|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3NYOOHU_okC&pg=PT64}}</ref> It may have derived from the German game of [[Mau Mau (card game)|Mau-Mau]].

There are many variations of the basic game, under names including ''[[Craits]]'',  ''[[Last Card]]'', ''[[Switch (card game)|Switch]]'', and ''[[Black Jack (Switch)|Black Jack]]''. [[Bartok (card game)|Bartok]], [[Mao (card game)|Mao]], [[Taki (card game)|Taki]], and [[Uno (card game)|Uno]] add further elements to the game.

[[David Parlett]] describes Crazy Eights as "not so much a game as a basic pattern of play on which a wide variety of changes can be rung," noting that players can easily invent and explore new rules.<ref name="parlett"/>