Crash (card game)

Crash

Origin	England
Type	Matching
Players	2-4
Cards	52
Deck	Anglo-American
Play	Clockwise
Card rank (highest to lowest)	A K Q J 7 6 5 4 3 2
Playing time	10 min.
Random chance	Low-Moderate
Related games
Brag

Crash is a British card game extension of Nine-card Brag.^[1] 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.

Gameplay

Players are dealt 13 cards each and must sort their hand into 4 Brag hands of three cards, or in 3 sets of 4 of a kind, discarding the last 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 their third best, then final hands. Note that not all players 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.

Gambling

The game is very popular in pubs and bars in the UK, and sometimes gambling is involved. All these rules depend on the rules of the house:

• The number of points is reduced to 7.
• An entry fee is used into a prize kitty and all players pay regardless of if they play or not commonly £1.
• If more than 4 players are involved, every player gets dealt a card, and if they receive a jack they enter the game, then stop receiving cards. This goes on until all players are dealt jacks.
• At the end of the game, every player except the winner must pay the winner for each point not earned (usually 20p).
• If a player crashes then the money for each point not earned is doubled, i.e. player B won on a crash, then Player C owes £2.80; however, this win can only be earned if a player needs more than 4 points to win.
• If a player receives 4 of a kind in a hand, then as long as he has the best hand in a go, in the event of 2 or more players receiving a 4 of a kind, then they receive half the entry bet off each player in the game, usually 50p.

Hand ranking

The highest hand is a 3 of a kind, Starting with 3's, followed by Aces, Kings and so on. After this, a Run of the same suit, also called Bouncer (all the way through is worth more than a regular run), Ace, 2, 3 the highest Run, followed by Ace, King, Queen and so on. Then a mixed run ranked as previous followed by a flush ( any 3 cards of the same suit), Finally, pairs are the lowest hand

See also

• Crossfire (card game)
• John Pagat website; Rules of Crash

References