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