A game in Piece of Cake

Switch

Match suit or value. Stack same-value cards. Use Aces and Jokers to take the table. Two to fourteen players, real time, on your phone.

Play in Piece of Cake

Also known as: Crazy Eights, Mau Mau, Black Jack (UK)

How Switch plays

Match the top card. On your turn play a card of the same suit or the same value as the card on top of the discard pile.
Stack same-value cards. Got two of a kind? Lay them down together. Three of a kind? Even better.
Special cards have powers. Aces are wild for suit — play one and choose the new suit. Twos make the next player draw two. Eights skip. Jacks reverse the direction. Jokers are full wilds — choose both the new suit and the new value.
First to empty their hand wins. Last card down without breaking a rule takes the round.

The full rules — including all special-card behaviour, the joker chooser, and the scoring options — live in-app under Help → Switch. Every move is validated server-side, so it’s structurally impossible to cheat or to see another player’s hand.

A two-player Switch game in Piece of Cake — Switch in play

The in-app Switch rules screen in Piece of Cake — Rules, always one tap away

The rules Piece of Cake plays

Match suit or value, stack matching values, and empty your hand first.

Goal

Be the first player to empty your hand.

Matching

Play a card that matches the top card by suit or value. You can stack cards of the same value in one play.

Aces

Aces are wild for suit. When you play one, choose the new suit.

Jokers

Jokers can be played as any card: choose both the suit and the value. The card you name still has to match the top card by suit or value — unless you name an Ace, which can be played on anything.

Trick cards

2s make the next player pick up 2 cards. 3s make the next player pick up 3 cards. 8s skip players. Jacks reverse the turn direction. Black Kings add 5 pickup cards, while red Kings cancel one black-King pickup layer already below them.

Can't play?

Pick up a card from the deck and pass the turn.

Pickup stacks

Pickup cards can be stacked by matching the active pickup rank. The Ace of Spades clears the active pickup stack and must be played on its own when clearing debt.

This is the rulesheet in the app under Help → Switch. Every roll, deal and move is checked on our servers, so nobody can bend the rules.