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:
- Biriba
- Canasta

Challenge truth:
- Cheat

One suit per player:
- Red Nines

Asian games:
- Big Two
- Dai Hin Min
- Dou Dizhu
- President
- Tien len
- Zheng Fen

Dedicated/non-standard card/commercialized games:
- Phase 10
- Uno
- Castle
- Scrabble Slam!

Miscellaneous:
- Cards in the hat

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