List of shedding-type games

In shedding-type games, the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards or tiles before all other players.

A player's hand of cards in a shedding-type game

Games with action/power/trick cards

In these games, players win by having the fewest points.

• Crazy Eights
• Craits
• One Card
• Cabo
• Mau Mau
• Switch
• Whot!

Progressively add rules

• Bartok
• Mao

One suit per player

• Red nines

One deck per pair

Players play in pairs, shed sets of cards for points and win by reaching a certain point value.

• Biriba
• Canasta

Different trump suit per player

• Farmer Henry

Bluffing

• Cheat

Asian games

• Big two
• Daifugō
• Dou dizhu
• Guandan
• President
• Tien len
• Zheng Fen

Proprietary

• Boom-O
• Castle
• Lexicon
• Phase 10
• Taki
• Uno
• Whot

Miscellaneous

• Cards in the hat
• Speed