Five Crowns

From Parents’ Choice®

It’s somewhat like rummy. Each succeeding hand is played with one additional card; the number of cards dealt determine which card is wild: e.g. when players start with three cards, the 3′s are wild; with four cards, the 4′s are wild and so on up to thirteen cards, when Kings are wild. (Ruth B. Roufberg, Parent’s Choice®, 1996)

Five Crowns is a quick paced ingenious rummy-like card game. Its double deck contains five suits (the stars are new), but it has no aces or twos. This unique deck gives you many more options for arranging your hand into sets and sequences. The challenge is to see them make the right combinations, be the first to go out, then watch the others scramble as they get one last chance to cut their losses. Five Crowns, with its gorgeous cards, is easy to learn. It starts with three cards and 3′s are wild. The next hand has four cards and 4′s are wild, and so on. You’ll need luck and skill throughout the game becau (more…)