Crash (card game)

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Crash is a British card game based on the game of Brag (also known as Three card brag). In Crash, there is no betting, as in Brag, but rather players aim to reach a total of 11 points, gained over successive deals, or else to 'crash', meaning to win the game outright by means of winning all four tricks in one deal.

Players are dealt 13 cards each and must sort their hand into 4 Brag hands of three cards and discard the remaining card. The hands rank as in Brag. Once the players have sorted their hands, each plays their highest ranked hand, and the player playing the highest gains one point (if hands are tied, no-one scores). Players then play their second-best hands, then third best, then final hands. Note that most schools do not accept 'high card' hands, and many do not accept 'pairs', which means that it is quite common for a player not to have four hands.