Five Crowns Score Sheet

How Five Crowns scoring works

Five Crowns is progressive rummy with a fifth suit and a wild card that moves. Every round you try to turn your whole hand into books and runs, and every round you have one more card to place — but also one more rank that counts as anything you like. Going out first is worth nothing by itself; the reward is that everyone else has to stop where they are and count. Number cards cost their face value, the picture cards eleven through thirteen, a stranded Joker fifty and a stranded wild twenty, so a hand caught mid-meld in the Kings round can hand over sixty points in one go. Eleven rounds of that add up fast, and the totals rarely look the way people expect until they are written down.