Bluke 11 cards are dealt on the third hand, and so on until only 1 card is dealt, after which 2 are dealt, then 3, and so on all the way back to 13 (see more about ending the game below). Thus for a standard game of Bluke, a total of 25 hands are dealt. One player needs to be designated as score-keeper and will record bids, tally scores and keep track of how many cards are to be dealt for each hand. Once a hand has been dealt, the remaining cards (2 or more) are passed face down to 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