Crazy Eights Countdown appears to show up first in “print” on a blog post in August of 2011 by what appears to be a school aged child who states she learned it from her sister. The facts surrounding the creation of the game are unknown, but does appear to be a variation of the game Crazy Eights. The game is gaining in popularity in North America.
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Crazy Eights Countdown is a card shedding game for 2 to 4 players. The object of the game is to reach 0 points.
At the beginning of the game, the dealer is randomly selected and during the game, the deal continues around the table clockwise. Each player or team starts with 8 points.
Crazy Eights uses a standard 52 card deck and eight cards are randomly dealt to each player (a different amount of cards may be dealt for a different number of players). The remaining cards are placed face down on the table to form the draw from pile (DFP). The top card of the DFP is placed, face up, right next to the draw from pile, to start the discard pile (DP).
The player to the left of the dealer always plays first and the play proceeds clockwise until it is changed by the game:
Multiple cards of the same rank can be played at one time, only 1-card can be drawn at a time and it can be played, skips cannot be countered, only other wild cards and cards of the same suit can be played on a wild card, the game starts at 8-points.
4-Player 8-Points (Members)Multiple cards can be played at the same time even if they are not the same rank, only 1-card can be drawn at a time and it can be played, skips can be countered, cards of the same rank can be played on wild cards even if they are not wild, the game starts at 8-points.
4-Player 4-Points (Members)Only 1 card can be played at one time, only 1-card can be drawn at a time and the turn ends, skips cannot be countered, only other wild cards and cards of the same suit can be played on a wild card, the game starts at 4-points.
4-Player-Teams 8-Points (Members)Multiple cards of the same rank can be played at one time, up to 2 cards can be drawn and they can be played, skips cannot be countered, cards of the same rank can be played on wild cards even if they are not wild, players setting across from each other are on the same team, the game starts at 8-points.
Modified on 4/26/2017 from Wikipedia