Jackdaw Crazy Eights

The coast road runs past eight harbour towns, and every one keeps a card table: a bench by the ferry ramp, a net loft, a rope walk, a tide mill, a salt market, the night ferry, the clock house and the lighthouse. Each table has regulars with their own habits and one house rule the last town never played, and a win at one sends you on to the next.

Crazy Eights and Mau-Mau against computer rivals or two to four friends online: stacking sevens, last-card calls, eight tables and a daily deal.

Everyone gets seven cards with two players, five with three or four. On your turn play a card that matches the top of the discard pile by suit or by rank; tap it or drag it onto the pile. With nothing to play, draw from the stock: in Crazy Eights you draw until a card fits, in Mau-Mau you draw one. A drawn card that fits may be played at once or kept. In Crazy Eights the eights are wild: they go on anything and you name the next suit. In Mau-Mau the jacks are wild, a seven makes the next player draw two, an eight skips them and an ace reverses the direction of play. With stacking on, a seven can answer a seven and the total passes to the next player. With the last-card rule, tap Last card before you play your second-to-last card, or you draw two. The first player to empty their hand wins the hand and scores the cards left in everyone else's: an eight 50 in Crazy Eights, a jack 20 in Mau-Mau, kings, queens and jacks 10, the rest their face value. The match ends when someone reaches the target. The tour has eight tables, each adding a rule: the last-card call, Mau-Mau action cards, stacking, sevens that swap hands, two decks with jump-in, a ten-second turn clock and a queen of spades that draws five. Keys: Tab and the arrow keys move between cards and buttons, Enter plays, D draws, K keeps a drawn card, L calls last card. To play friends online, press Play with a friend, pick two to four players and the rules, and send the link; bots fill the empty seats.