crazy eights

English

Noun

crazy eights (uncountable)

1. (card games) 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.
   • 2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven:

     We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.

Translations

card game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: pesten (nl) n (Mau Mau)
• Finnish: crazy eights, seiska (fi) (similar card game, seven instead of eight)