Five Crowns is rummy with a five-suited deck and a twist. The set collection aspect of rummy is the same, with groups of three cards in either runs or denominations making a valid meld. The twist is that the number of cards required to create a meld increases in each hand, from three cards in the first hand to thirteen in the last. The game, therefore, consists of eleven hands.
In addition to the six Jokers, other cards are designated as wild: in the first hand 3s are wild; in the second 4s are wild, and so on until the Kings go wild in the last hand. (You can remember which cards are wild because it matches the number of cards in hand, i.e., in the first hand you hold three cards and 3s are wild.) A hand ends when a player can meld all cards in her hand after the discard.
1-7 Players
30 Mins
Ages 8+