Taki (card game)

Taki is a shedding card game created by the Israeli game producer Haim Shafir and introduced in 1983 by Shafir Games, with its card artwork drawn by the Israeli artist Ari Ron. It is an advanced variant of Crazy Eights, played with its own special deck of 112 cards made of two identical sets of 56, and in its basic form it resembles Uno. Each player in turn adds to a discard pile with a card of the same color or figure, and the aim is to be the first to empty the hand. Action cards stop the next player, make others draw, reverse the direction of play or change the color, and the namesake Taki card lets a player lay down a whole run of one color and then close it by calling out Closed Taki. The name is the Japanese word for waterfall, a nod to that cascade of cards. A player down to one card must announce Last card, and scoring is by penalty points over six rounds, the lowest total winning.