Shedding-type game

A shedding-type card game is a game in which the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards before all other players. Popular card games of this type include:

• action/power/trick cards; win by least number of points
  • Black Jack
  • Boom-O
  • Crazy Eights
  • Craits
  • One Card
  • Cabo
  • Switch

• progressively add rules
  • Bartok
  • Mao

• one deck per pair; play in pairs; shed sets of cards for points; win by reaching a certain point value
  • Canasta
  • Biriba

• challenge truth
  • Cheat

• one suit per player
  • Red Nines

• Asian games
  • Dai Hin Min
  • Tien len
  • Asshole
  • Big Two
  • Zheng Fen

• Dedicated/non-standard card/commercialised games
  • Phase 10
  • Uno
  • Castle
  • Scrabble Slam!

• Miscellaneous
  • Cards in the hat