Robbers' rummy new ones. This makes it "much more exciting and engaging than any other [Rummy] variant...". Danyliuk describes it as "a fun, but difficult, variant of Rummy." The aim of Robber's Rummy is to be the first player to discard all the cards in hand by forming melds and placing them on table. Robbers' rummy is played using two standard 52-card French decks, and 2 to 6 jokers. Initially, each player is dealt 11 to 13 cards from the shuffled deck, whose remainder, called the "stock" is placed face-down on the table. The goal of each player is to reduce the
Crazy Eights designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, Section 8. There are many variations of the basic game, and a number of different names including "Craits", "Last One", "Mau-Mau", "Pesten", "Rockaway", "Swedish Rummy", "Switch", "Last Card", "Screw Your Neighbor", Püskiyon, and "Tschausepp". Bartok, Mao, Quango, Zar, Taki, and Uno are more extreme variations. David Parlett describes Crazy Eights as "not so much a game as a basic pattern of play on which a wide variety of changes can be rung," noting that players can easily invent and explore new rules. Eight cards are dealt to each player (or seven in a