Editing Crazy Eights (section)

==Variations==

Card game historian [[John McLeod (card game researcher)|John McLeod]] describes Crazy Eights as "one of the easiest games to modify by adding variations",<ref name="pagat"/> and many variant rules exist. Common rules applied to cards include:

;Queens skip: Playing a Queen causes the next player to miss their turn.<ref name="pagat"/>
;Aces reverse direction: Playing an Ace reverses the direction of play.<ref name="pagat"/>
;Draw 2: Playing a two forces the next player to draw two cards, unless they can play another two. Multiple twos "stack"; if a two is played in response to a two, the next player must draw four.<ref name="pagat"/>

If the game ends on a special card, that card's rule is not applied.<ref name="pagat"/>

A popular variant of the game in the United States is '''Crazy Eights Countdown''', where players start with a score of 8. A player's score determines how many cards they are dealt at the start of each round, and which rank of card is wild for them. (So initially, all players are dealt eight cards and 8s are wild for everyone; after one round, one player will be dealt seven cards and 7s will be wild for them, but 8s will be wild for everyone else.) The first player to reduce their score to zero wins the game.<ref name="pagat"/>