3-5-8, also known as sergeant major for its popularity among members of the Royal Air Force, is a trick-taking card game for 3 players, based on whist, using a standard 52 card deck.
Dealer names a suit as trump and discards 4 cards from his or her hand before replacing them with the kitty.
Some groups allow the dealer to pick up the kitty and add it to his or her hand before discarding any 4 cards of the 20 they now have.
Eldest hand leads any card to the first trick and play moves clockwise with each player following suit, or playing any card if unable to follow suit.
Deal and targets are passed to the left and the new dealer deals the cards out as before, only now there is an exchange of cards before dealer names trump: Play and scoring continues as above.
A miz round is played as a no trumps round, but the aim is to lose tricks and the usual minimum needed to win instead becomes the maximum that may be won without losing points.