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crazy eights, popular children’s card game. The basic idea is to be the first to play all one’s cards to a communal discard pile. This game has a huge number of variations and many alternative names. At its simplest, two players each receive seven cards from a standard 52-card deck—or five cards from a double deck of 104 cards if there are more than two players. The remaining cards go facedown to form the stock, with the top card turned up to start a discard pile. If this card is an 8, it is “buried” in the stock, and the ...(100 of 464 words)

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