Mel Nash suggested that people who play Crazier Eights could use points in order to determine how well multiple players do when playing multiple games. It would be possible to have a tournament by having a group play a few games. Some players don’t seem to want to use points, but I think it is a great idea to give people the option to do so.

How do points work? After each game, players who didn’t win count how many cards they have in hand. They each get that many points. The player with the most points is doing the worst. Also, whoever has the most points plays first (rather than randomly determining who plays first).

There is a weird situation that can happen in Crazier Eights that doesn’t happen very often: Sometimes drawing a card is not possible. If the draw pile has no cards in it, and the discard pile only has one card in it, then there are no cards left to draw.

What happens when a card can’t be drawn? It used to be that the player who can’t draw a card (but is supposed to draw one) would lose the game.

Now I think a better rule is just to end the game at that point. In that case whoever has the fewest cards in hand would win the game.