How do you win the card game Crazy 8?

Strategies for Variations of Crazy EightsUse your special cards to hamper the leader. If the player on your left is winning, skipping over her or making her draw cards is good. Don’t save your eights until the last card if playing with specials.

Can you go out on an 8 in crazy eights?

All eights are wild! That is, an eight may be played at any time in turn, and the player need only specify a suit for it (but never a number). The next player must play either a card of the specified suit or an eight.

Do you have to have a discard in Phase 10?

To go out, a player must get rid of all of their cards by a combination of hitting on existing Phases and discarding cards they cannot use to hit. The player to go out first wins the hand. To go out, the player must be able to discard a card at the end of their turn, otherwise they are “floating”.

Can you go out on a playable card in Phase 10?

If you have made your Phase, then any card in your hand that the next person could play is also playable by you; you should play that one yourself and discard a different card. You draw a playable card: all three cards are playable, so you have no choice but to discard one.