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A smiling capybara in spectacles and a cardigan flips a playing card on a green card table in a lantern-lit train carriage, with a lit bridge and town outside

Eights Up

Chess, cards, and board games

By nightbus · 98 plays

A travelling card game of crazy eights. Match the suit or the number, play an eight to name the next suit, and beat a host at a card table in each of eight cities, each with its own house rule.

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About the game

Crazy eights, the card game I play the most on long trips. Each city has a host with their own house rule, like the people you meet on the way. Eights Up is a classic shedding card game with a passport. Play a card that matches the top of the pile by suit or by number, and be the first to empty your hand. Eights are wild: play one on anything and name the suit that comes next. The deck is drawn for this game with four suits: Suns, Waves, Peaks and Kites. Each suit has its own colour and symbol, so you never have to tell colours apart. Travel from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro and sit down at a card table in each city. Every host has a personality: Inês plays it safe, Youssef sheds his big cards first, Mehmet fires off every skip he holds, Sigrún saves her eights and Mia plays on a whim. Each city brings a gentle new rule, from twos that make the next player draw two and jacks that skip a turn, to queens that reverse play, kings that play again and a final table with every rule at once. When a round ends, you score the cards left in the other hands. The first to the target wins the match and earns up to three stars. Quick play lets you pick one to three opponents and your own house rules.

How to play

Tap or click a raised card to play it; it must match the top card by suit or number. Eights are wild: play one and pick the next suit. If nothing fits, draw a card, then play it or keep it. Empty your hand to win the round and score the points left in the other hands; first to the target wins. House rules in some cities: 2s make the next player draw two, jacks skip, queens reverse, kings play again. Keyboard: arrows choose a card, Enter plays, D draws, 1 to 4 pick a suit, Escape pauses.

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desktop, mobile, tablet
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Content notes

A card game with no money, betting or gambling theme. No violence, text chat, ads or purchases. Gentle sound effects that can be turned off, and motion that can be reduced in settings.

Screenshots

Kyoto tea house, four players: an eight has just been played and the suit picker asks which suit comes next, with Suns, Waves, Peaks and Kites shown as large symbols and the suit you hold most markedSydney beach shack at sunset: Haruto and Youssef have each played a 2, so four cards are waiting to be drawn, and your 2 of Kites is raised so you can stack it and pass six on to MiaWinning the Kyoto table: the results card shows three gold stars, your final score past 100, each host with the cards left in their hand and the points they gave you, and a button to fly to SydneyThe travel itinerary: eight cities as postage stamps from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, each with its own house rule, the five cities already won with their stars, Kyoto open next and the last two lockedArriving in Kyoto: the city card introduces a tea house table for four, the rule that kings play again, and three hosts with portraits and personalities, Haruto, Sigrún and MehmetA phone in portrait playing the Istanbul ferry table: two hosts at the top, a queen of Waves landing on the pile to turn the direction of play around, and a two-row hand of large cards with playable ones raised

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