Five Crowns (game) with more players if the cards from 2 sets are mixed together. The game is played over 11 rounds, similar to the rummy style game Three Thirteen. In the first round, 3 cards are dealt to each player. In the second round, 4 cards are dealt to each player, and so on until round 11 where 13 cards are dealt to each player. As in the game Three Thirteen, players create sets or runs of 3 or more, using the Jokers and the current round's wild card as wilds. Each round has a different wild card (the 3's in 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