What's this card game called?

Question

You have 7 cards each. Place them one at a time, a 6 can go on a 6 etc.. and a spade on a spade etc... You can put an Ace on anything and change the suit. If you put a red Jack, the next player picks up 3 cards and 5 cards for a Black Jack. You can't put a red Jack on a black one. If some one puts a 2 down, you pick 2 cards up unless you too can put a 2 on it. If you put an 8 down, that means you can put another one down straight away.

There's one or two other little rules but that's the bulk of the game.

Is it game, if so what's it called or I wonder if if has been developed locally from various games? I thought it was called Black Jack but that is cards to the value of 21.

Answer 1

Sounds like a game I played as a young teenager, It was known then as Jack's, 2's and 8's, but that was 15 years ago probably got a different name now, but definitely the same game. 7's were miss a go.

Answer 2

I know this game as Black Jack.....but I suppose along the years the name has changed....

Answer 3

Fizzbin, as explained in detail by Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek episode, "A Piece of the Action."

Answer 4

Crazy eights. Played with my friends not long ago lol. Was funny

Answer 5

sounds like crazy eights.

Answer 6

switch is the game, your rules tho are inda diff frm the irish one,lol

better known as blackjack 2:)