Origin England Players 2-4 Deck Anglo-American | Type Matching Cards 52 Play Clockwise | |
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Crash is a British card game extension of Nine-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.
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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:
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