A player may choose to withhold a card due to personal strategy but will incur the penalty of having to pick a card from the deck. If a player is not able to place a card, he draws cards from the stack until he can play a card. The card played must be of the same value or higher. The first to play (generally, the player on the dealer's left) should select from his or her hand a card that matches either, the suit or the rank of the open card (the card that is 'top') for example, on a 9 of spades, only a spade card or a 9 may be played. (Switch may not start with a trick card, and so if the 'starting card' is a trick card, cards shall continue to be selected from the pool until a non-trick card is revealed.) At the beginning of the game, the topmost card from the 'pool” is revealed and, so long as this card is not a trick card, play begins. The remainder of the deck is placed face down and serves as a 'pool' or drawing stack. Players are initially dealt a similar-sized hand of cards (often seven per person), but the exact number may vary depending on how many players are present. Should the player not have any card available to play, they must pick up one card. Switch is played with a regular, single deck of playing cards, or with two standard decks (shuffled into one) if there is a large number of players.Įach player at their turn may play any card from their hand that matches the suit or the rank of the card previously played for example, if the previous card was a seven of clubs, the next player may put down any seven card, or any club card, from their hand. The game is also commonly known as Jack Change It, Crazy Eights, Take Two and Peanuckle in the UK and Ireland. Switch is very similar to the games UNO, Flaps and Mau Mau, both belonging to the larger Crazy Eights or Shedding family of card games.

The sole aim of Switch is to discard all of the cards in one's hand the first player to play their final card, and ergo have no cards left, wins the game. Switch (also called Two Four Jacks or Black Jack, or Last Card in New Zealand) is a shedding-type card game for two or more players that is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland and as alternative incarnations in other regions. Playing an 8 causes the next player to miss their turn

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