Shed sounds like it was shortened shithead. We were the same as most. Our 8 was the transparent card, 2/10/ace were the same as mentioned. Burning with 4 of a kind or the ten always gave you an extra go, however you could only play the yen on lower cards. One additional rule we had was that before the game started, we could swap the house cards for the three in our hand. Also it was always red 3 to start, If no red 3 then it was black 3 or red 4 or black 4... Etc until a card could be played.