All inPlay Crazy Eights Rules
Sit down at an empty table, and you will be joined
by bots who will play with you until other people join you. Every table
will have at least two and no more than eight people playing.
If you join
a table that has a game in progress you can be dealt in right away or wait until the hand ends. The default is to deal you in, you can select to wait by setting the "Deal me in as soon as I join a game" option on the game options page. You will find a link to the "options" from the play page.
If you join the game, you are dealt into the hand with
the same number of cards as the person who has the most cards, or no less than
the starting number of cards.
When it is your turn, use the left and right arrow
keys to select playable cards and draw and pass options. Use the up and down
arrows let you review all of your non-playable cards. Press Enter to play a
selected card or option.
If you play a Crazy Eight, type c, h, s, or d to
choose a suit (clubs, hearts, spades, or diamonds).
If you have no playable cards, you must draw a card.
If that card is unplayable, you pass your turn automatically.
You hear a warning every time someone discards their
second-to-last card.
All inPlay limits the number of cards
you can draw to 15 if you have playable cards. If you have 15 cards and one
of them is playable you must play. If someone plays a draw two to you, you still
draw the additional two cards. If none of the 15 cards in your hand are playable,
you still need to draw a card.
Chaining
All inPlay has created a twist on crazy eights called "chaining". Chaining is a rule that allows draw 2 cards to be passed on rather than the player having to draw two cards.
If a Draw2 is played, this initiates a "draw chain." The first player who is confronted with the draw chain who cannot "pass it on" by playing a Draw2 or a Reverse or Skip of same suit as the top card has to draw the number of cards in the draw chain.
To add to the excitement of chaining, each deck has more special cards: Reverse, Draw 2, Skip, and Wild 8.
Note that only tables marked as "chaining" use this rule.
Scoring
Crazy Eights is a race game, meaning that the first
person to get to a certain score becomes the winner. Because this scoring system
would, in general, mean that the person who played the most would get on the
scoreboards first, we added a "quality" measure for scoring. Therefore,
we also keep track of the number of points lost. Top scores not only indicate
those who have reached the mark, but those who have reached the mark with the
fewest points lost. To keep scoreboards fresh, your score will only stay on
the board for two weeks, so new scores can constantly be added. You can be on
the scoreboard multiple times if you hit the goal more than once.
If you leave the game early, the points in your hand
are "retired" and added to your "points lost" total, while
the winner wins those points automatically.
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