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Card Games for Eight Players

This is a list of traditional card and tile games that are designed for or work well with eight players. Each game is listed just once - for alternative names see the general alphabetical index. For each game the configuration of players and the type and number of cards or tiles is listed. There is an explanation of the symbols below the table.

Game	Quantity	Configuration
Abyssinia Poker	52	individual
Aces, Straights and Flushes Poker	52	individual
Animals	52	individual
Baccarat	6x52	banker
Backstab Fish	2x52+4J	individual
Badugi	52	individual
Blackjack 21	6x52	banker
Bonanza Pai Gow	32	banker
Bourré	52	individual
Brag 3 card	52	individual
Brag 4 card	52	individual
Brag 5 card	52	individual
Buddha's Folly Poker	52	individual
Bullshit	52, 2x52	individual
Burro	40, 48	individual
Calcutta Horse Race	52	individual
Cancellation Hearts	2x52	individual
Candyman	52	alliance
Card Bingo	52, 2x52	individual \| banker
Caribbean Poker	52	banker
Casino Hold'em Poker	52	banker
CHORSE Poker	52	individual
CHORSEL Poker	52	individual
Cincinnati Poker	52	individual
Courchevel poker	52	individual
Crazy Eights	2x52	individual
Crazy Pineapple Poker	52	individual
Crazy Pineapple Hi-Lo Poker	52	individual
Crazy Solo	32	alliance
Cuckoo	52	individual
Cucumber	52, 52+2J	individual
Cyprus	55	individual
Duplicate Bridge	52	partnership
Earl of Coventry	52	individual
Eight Game Mix Poker	52	individual
Elevator Poker	52	individual
Farmers' Rummy	4x52+8J	individual
Faro	52	banker
Fifty-Six	2x32	partnership
Four of a Kind	52	individual
Générala	52+2J	individual
Getaway	52	individual
Gnav	42	individual
Golf	2x52	individual
Golf Eight Card	3x52, 3x52+6J	individual
Golf Nine Card	3x52, 3x52+6J	individual
Golf Six Card	3x52, 3x52+6J	individual
Guts	52	individual
High Card Pool	52	individual
HOE Poker	52	individual
HORSE Poker	52	individual
Horse Race cards	52	banker
HOSE Poker	52	individual
In Between	52	banker
Indian Poker	52	individual
Irish Poker	52	individual
Irish Snap	52	individual
Iron Cross Poker	52	individual
K'ap Tái Shap	8x32	individual
Kapaga	52+2J	individual
Koira	52	individual
Lame Brain Pete Poker	52	individual
Lansquenet	6x52	banker
Let It Ride	52	banker
Loo	52	individual
Losing Lodam	52	individual
Mao	2x52, 3x52	individual
Mattis	52	individual
Maw	52	individual \| partnership
Mexican Train	91	individual
Michigan	52	individual
NLK	48	individual
Nobble	52	individual
Ogórek Cucumber	52	individual
Old Maid	43, 51	individual
Omaha Poker	52	individual
Omaha Hi-Lo Eight or Better Poker	52	individual
Omaha High Poker	52	individual
One Arm Joe	28	individual
One Hundred adding game	2x52	individual
Pai Gow 牌九	32	banker
Panguingue	8x40	individual
Pegs and Jokers	3x52+6J, 4x52+8J	partnership
Pelmanism	52	individual
Pick a Partner Poker	52	alliance
Pig	52, 52+J	individual
Pineapple Poker	52	individual
Poker Bull	52, 52+2J	individual
Polish Red Dog	52	banker
Pontoon	52	banker
Pope Joan	51	individual
Pyramid Poker	52	individual
Ribs	2x32	individual
ROE Poker	52	individual
Round the World Poker	52	individual
Rummy Indian	3x52+3J	individual
Rummy 500	2x52, 2x52+4J	individual
Scat	52	individual
Schwimmen	32	individual
Seven Twenty-Seven	52	individual
SHOE Poker	52	individual
Shoot	52	banker
Shoot Pontoon	52	banker
Siwweschrööm	32	individual
Skin	52	banker
Slabberjan	42	individual
Slapjack	52	individual
Slippery Sam	52	banker
Snip Snap Snorum	52	individual
Speculation	52	individual
Spoons Eights	2x52	individual
Telesina	48	individual
Texas Hold'em Poker	52	individual
Three Card Poker	52	banker
Three-Thirteen Rummy	3x52, 3x52+6J	individual
Tic Tac Toe Poker	52	individual
Tiddly-Wink	28, 55, 91	individual
Toepen	32	individual
Toruro	40	individual
Tournament Blackjack	52, 6x52	banker
Trains	55, 91	individual
Troggu	62	alliance
Twist'em Dominoes	28	banker
Two plus One Poker	52	individual
Vatra	52, 52+J	individual
Vier-Anderle	38	individual
Whisky Poker	52	individual
Yukon Hold'em Poker	52	individual
Z Poker	52	individual
Zecchinetta	40	banker
Zhăo Péngyou 找朋友	3x52+2J	alliance
4-2-2 Poker	52	individual
4-2-3 Poker	52	individual
5 Card Omaha poker	52	individual
6-card Brag	52	individual
7½	40	banker
25	52	individual \| partnership
31 showdown	52	individual
41 Exchange	52	individual
5000 Rummy	2x48, 2x48+4J, 2x52, 2x52+4J, 3x48, 3x52, 3x52+6J	individual

Explanation of symbols

Configuration

Individual. There are no teams. All players play for themselves and against the others.
Partnership. The players are divided into fixed teams. These could be either two teams of four, with each player stitting between two opponents, or four teams of two, with partners sitting opposite each other or in some games next to each other.
Alliance. Temporary teams (alliances) are formed during the game. Usually the teams are set by the bidding or by the location of certain cards. The teams generally change from deal to deal, so although players will need to co-operate with their partners, ultimately everyone plays for themselves.
Sitting Out. A number in brackets [1] indicates players who do not take a full part in the game, but may have minor duties such as dealing the cards, fetching the beer or making the tea. Players generally take turns to sit out.
Banker. One player is the banker, and the other players play against the banker, rather than against each other. Many casino games have this format, with a representative of the house playing as the banker. In home games, the role of banker usually passes from player to player, so that everyone has an opportunity to be the bank.

Design

This column indicates the type of cards or tiles needed. See the equipment section of the classified index for further details of the different designs.

Quantity

This column gives the number of cards in the deck, indicates where multiple decks are used, and the number of jokers. Where the game can be played with various sizes or numbers of decks, perhaps depending on the number of players, the possibilities are listed, separated by commas. For example, "2x32" means a double 32-card deck: 64 cards in all with two copies of each card. "52+2J" means a 52-card deck with two jokers. "32, 36" means the game can be played with 32 or 36 cards. "2x52+2J, 3x52+3J" means that the game can be played with two 52-card decks plus two jokers (106 cards) or three 52-card decks plus three 52-card decks plus three jokers (159 cards).

Possible for Eight Players

Here is a list of other traditional card and tile games that can be played by eight players. These are games that although possible for eight, are not particularly recommended, since they work better with some other number of players.

Game	Quantity	Configuration
Ace-To-Six Lowball (Draw) Poker	52	individual
All for One and One for All Poker	52	individual
Bid Euchre	2x24	partnership
Bitch, The Poker	52	individual
Black Mariah Poker	52	individual
California Lowball Poker	52, 52+J	individual
Chicago Poker	52	individual
Chicken Foot	55, 91	individual
Couillon	32	partnership
Dai Fugō	52+J, 2x52+2J	individual
Dealer's Choice Poker	52	individual
Do Ya Poker	52	individual
Double Draw Poker	52	individual
Fan Tan	52	individual
Five Card Draw Deuces Wild Poker	52	individual
Five Card Draw Poker	52	individual
Five Card Draw with a Bug Poker	52+J	individual
Five Card Stud Poker	52	individual
Five Card Stud High-Low Poker	52	individual
Five Card Stud High-Low With a Buy Poker	52	individual
Follow The Queen Poker	52	individual
Golf Four Card	2x52	individual
Hollywood Garbage	3x52	individual
Jacks Back (5 Card Draw) Poker	52, 52+J	individual
Jacks or Better (5 Card Draw) Poker	52	individual
Jhyap	52, 52+2J	individual
Juse	52	individual
Kalooki Caribbean	3x52+6J	individual
Kansas City Lowball Poker	52	individual
Kemps	52	partnership
Kvitlech	24	banker
Literature	48	partnership
London Lowball (7-card Stud) Poker	52	individual
Low Chicago Poker	52	individual
Low Hole Poker	52	individual
Lowball (5 Card Stud) Poker	52	individual
Lowball (Draw) Poker	52	individual
Matador	55, 91	individual
Mexican Stud Poker	52	individual
Mighty	2x52+2J	alliance
Pip-Pip	2x52	individual
Poker Menteur	52	individual
President	2x52, 2x52+4J	individual
Push Poker	52	individual
Racing Demon	4x52	partnership
Razz	52	individual
Roll Your Own Poker	52	individual
San Francisco Poker	52	individual
Second Hand High Poker	52	individual
Sequence Poker	52	individual
Seven Card Stud Poker	52	individual
Seven Card Stud High-Low Poker	52	individual
Seven Card Stud with Wild Cards Poker	52	individual
Shithead	2x52	individual
Sökö Stud Poker	52	individual
Spit in the Ocean Poker	52	individual
Sviten Special	52	individual
Teen Patti	52	individual
Trees Poker	52	individual
Tripoli	52	individual
Trips to Win (5 Card Draw) Poker	52	individual
Twenty-Two	2x52	individual
Vändåtta	2x52	individual
Žandari	52	partnership
55	52	alliance
110	52	alliance
220	52	alliance
304	32	partnership

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