Just look up Crazy 8's. Good? Good. Time for some changes. Make sure you read to the bottom, get every rule.

 

First, special cards. All of them are special. Here's a list:

2: Reverse! Change the direction of play.

3: Pass 'em around! Everyone passes their hand to the person next to them in the direction of play.

4: Take a peek! Look at another player's hand.

5: Skip! The next person in line to play skips their turn!

6: Discard! Discard a card underneath the 6, so the 6 is still on top.

7: Swap! Switch hands with someone- your choice who!

8: Still crazy! It's a wild card- pick a suit!

9: Yoink! Take a card at random from someone's hand!

10: Chill out. This card does nothing. That's it's thing.

J, Q, K: It's a draw 2! They all stack with each other, regardless of suit or symbol!

A: Draw 4! This stacks on other aces, as well as the jack, queen, and king, but be careful- you can't play BOTH an ace and a jack, queen, or king in the same turn. You gotta pick. Jacks, queens, and kings CANNOT stack on top of this.

Joker: WILD DRAW 4!!! Play it on literally anything! Nothing stacks on this... unless the next person has THE OTHER JOKER. 

 

Okay, now that that's out of the way...

OTHER SPECIAL RULES

It's draw until you can play! If you find yourself unable to play, just keep drawing cards! Yep, it sucks, but it's in the spirit of the game, so suck it up.

Stack play! Got three 5's? Or a king and a queen? You can play as many cards of a single type as you want (not suit. That would be insane.)! What's more is their effects stack! So if you play three 5's, you skip not just the next turn, but the next THREE turns! All you gotta do is make sure that the BOTTOM card is one that would go on the stack. So if you see a queen of diamonds on the stack, and you want to play a 4 of diamonds and a 4 of hearts, the 4 of hearts needs to be on the TOP.

Run out of cards? If you run out of cards (and you will) just shuffle the discard pile (except for the top card) into the draw pile. This is your new draw pile! The top card stays on the discard pile so people know what to play on. If you're still out of cards, then you can take that top card- just remember it, I guess. If people need to draw more than there are cards, they just draw as many as they can until things run out.

Pass the buck! If the person before you wants to make you draw cards, you can play YOUR OWN draw cards on the pile to add them to the total count and pass it on to the next player! So if the person before you plays a king and a queen (for a total of draw 4), you can play a joker to make it a draw 6 for the next player, or a joker and two queens to make it a DRAW 10! Remember the rules of what card can go on what- specifically:

• jokers can go on anything,
• aces can go on anything except for jokers, and
• jacks, kings, and queens can only go on jacks, kings, and queens.

GAME MODES

Still not crazy enough for ya? Well, luckily, I've taken the liberty of creating some optional game modes. Don't use these on new players, please. They'll cry.

Juggernaut Mode- All players get 7 cards. Leave a 10 card deck. The rest of the cards go to the Juggernaut. The person with the most cards plays with their hand revealed. Good luck.

Old maid- The queen of spades is now an unstackable (no, even jokers can't stack on this) draw 20. May god have mercy on our souls.

Gotta Catch 'Em All- After 10 rounds, or when the deck is first used up, the player with the most cards wins.

BS- You may play your cards face down, saying what they are. Anyone can call BS on your placement. If you lied, you take the discard pile. If you told the truth, they take the discard pile (just like the normal game of BS). For legal reasons, BS stands for "Bart Simpson."

Tricks- First to 100 cards played wins.

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Before you read, you should know something. I'm afraid something... dreadful... has happened. I will begin to leave little notes over various places Dan's podcast exists... insights... I can't say more. He doesn't know this is here. He can't know.