Playcard gamesPlay Crazy eights online
Crazy eights in the browser, for nothing: open a table, send the code to whoever is playing, and let a bot take any chair nobody fills.
- 2-7 players
- Bots for empty seats
- Free
- Nothing to download
How Crazy eights is played here
The rules this table deals by. Everybody at the table sees the same lines before the first hand.
- Play a card matching the top of the pile by suit or by rank. If you cannot, keep taking cards until you can.
- Any eight may be played on anything, and you name the suit that follows. It is both an escape and a weapon.
- There is no limit on drawing: you take cards until something plays, or until the pack is empty.
- Whoever goes out scores what everybody else is left holding — fifty for an eight, ten for a court card, one for an ace.
How it works
- Open a table. It gets a short code of its own.
- Read the code out, or send the link. Anyone you send it to sits down as a guest, without an account.
- Deal once everyone is seated — or give each empty chair a bot and start now.
How multiplayer Crazy eights works
Playing Crazy eights online with other people, step by step: the code, the seats, the table rules, and what happens when somebody drops out.
Inviting the players
The host opens the table, which needs a free account, and shares the six-character code or the link from "Copy link". On a phone "Challenge a friend" stands beside it, and hands that invitation straight to Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat or whatever else you chat in. Everyone who follows it chooses a name and sits down as a guest, without an account.
Crazy eights seats two to seven. Two players are dealt seven cards each and larger tables five each. Get everybody into the lobby before the deal, since a game in progress cannot be joined — the host can seat bots in any empty chairs.
The table rules
The host makes two choices, and everyone sees them in their own lobby. The first is the target: 100, 200 or 300 points. The second is what happens when the draw pile runs out: turn the discards over and carry on, or play on with players passing when they cannot play.
Playing on without turning the pile over ends hands much sooner, and a blocked hand goes to the player holding least. Turning the discards over is the longer, more usual game.
Taking turns
Play goes round in the order people sat down. Everyone sees the top of the pile, the suit to follow, and how many cards each player holds; only your own hand is sent to you. When you cannot play, you keep drawing until you can.
When somebody plays an eight, they name the suit, and the table shows it to everyone. The table also says when somebody has to take cards, and how many.
Between hands
When a player goes out, the table shows what everyone was left holding and what the hand paid. The next hand is dealt once everyone has pressed "Ready for the next hand", and the first to the target wins.
There is no chat at the table; groups who like to groan at an eight do it on a call.
When somebody drops out
A player whose connection drops is shown as away for twenty-five seconds; after that a bot plays their hand until they open the table again and take the seat back. Somebody who presses Leave is replaced by a bot for the rest of the game.
If the host leaves, hosting passes to whoever has been sitting longest. A table with no activity for six hours is cleared away.
Questions about playing Crazy eights online
- How many can play Crazy eights online here?
- 2 to 7 at one table. A bot can take any seat nobody fills, so a game never has to wait for somebody to turn up.
- Can I play Crazy eights against the computer?
- Yes. Give any empty seat a bot and it plays like anyone else at the table, seeing only its own cards.
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Every table here is free, there are no ads, and nothing about you is sold or handed on.
- Do I need an account?
- Only to open a table. Joining one never needs an account — anyone you send the code to sits down as a guest.
- Does Crazy eights work on a phone?
- Yes. It runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and there is nothing to install.