List of shedding-type games

A player's hand of cards in a shedding-type game

In shedding-type games, the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards or tiles before all other players.

Games with action/power/trick cards

In these games, players win by having the fewest points.

  • Crazy Eights
  • Craits
  • One Card
  • Cabo
  • Mau Mau
  • Switch

Progressively add rules

  • Bartok
  • Mao

One suit per player

  • Red nines

One deck per pair

Players play in pairs, shed sets of cards for points and win by reaching a certain point value.

  • Biriba
  • Canasta

Different trump suit per player

  • Farmer Henry

Bluffing

  • Cheat

Asian games

  • Big two
  • Daifugō
  • Dou dizhu
  • President
  • Tien len
  • Zheng Fen

Proprietary

  • Boom-O
  • Castle
  • Lexicon
  • Phase 10
  • Taki
  • Uno
  • Whot

Miscellaneous