I don’t know how we first found 5 Crowns card game, or when exactly, but this is one of our go to games when we have friends over.

Description This fast-paced game contains a double deck of cards with five suits (the 'stars' are new). Similar to most gin rummy games, the object is to form sets or sequences of cards using up all the cards in your hand. But this unique new game has a few twists. A Rummy-style game with 5 suits. Five Crowns is rummy with a five-suited deck and a twist. The set collection aspect of rummy is basically the same, with groups of three cards in either runs or denominations making a valid meld.

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5 Crowns card game Quick Overview

Here’s a quick 10 second explanation of Five Crowns card game: It’s Gin Rummy with 5 suits and a changing wild card.

Clear as mud right?

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This is part of why we like to play this and introduce it to friends. It’s a game you can easily talk around, as Jeff would call it a “beer and pretzels game.”

Side note, someday I want to get this Five Crowns Playing Card Game in Wooden Protective Box, because our plain cardboard box is falling apart from play.

5 Crowns card game the longer explanation

This game has 12 rounds with you gaining one card each round. The first round you have 3 cards and by the last round you have 13 cards.

Each round you are trying to organize your cards into sets of at least 3:

• Runs- sets that are part of one suit that go in order (3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of hearts)
• Matches- sets of one number that could be multiple suits (3 “9’s”, heart, clubs, stars)
• Sets can have one OR more wild card in them. Wild cards are the current wild for that round and Jokers. Jokers are always wild.

This is the third round, and you have 5 cards. 5’s are wild this time. If you’re ever not sure what card is wild, count the number of cards you have and that number is wild.

Five Crowns is a low level card replacement game.

I figured I better start defining some of the gaming terms I use on posts like these. So, here’s my first definition.

Card replacement- picking up and discarding cards rapidly to cycle through cards rapidly to gain the most effect.

In this case every turn you are discarding and picking up cards. That’s the whole point. You need to change your hand to get the arrangement you want. I say this is a low level version of that because in more extreme versions your goal is to run through your entire hand in that one round.

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The most difficult hand is the “5’s,” because you have to get 5 items in your set (sets require a minimum of 3). In this case I ended up with 5 “9’s” with two wild cards.

5 Crowns is a great game to get your kids started on counting cards. You want to teach your kids to be aware of what has been played and what patterns are developing. Who is picking up what, what types of cards are they discarding.

I’m sure you’re thinking, that’s nice, but why do I WANT to do that? Later on in life you want your kids to notice details. What was someone wearing, how are they interacting with other people. Teaching them to notice details in smaller things like card games will help them to get better details later in life.

Besides, it’s “good clean fun.” And a fun excuse to play some games.

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