4in1 - Games Bundle Pack (Five Crowns SET Quiddler Karma)

Five Crowns

Send everyone scrambling as you go out first in this 5-suit Rummy-like game! 

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. The twist is that in each hand the number of cards required to create a meld increases from three cards in the first hand to thirteen in the last. The game therefore consists of eleven hands.

In each hand in addition to the six Jokers other cards are designated as wild: in the first hand 3s are wild; in the second hand 4s are wild and so on until in the last hand the Kings go wild. (You can remember which cards are wild because it matches the number of cards in hand i.e. in the first hand you hold three cards and 3s are wild.) A hand ends when a player can meld all cards in her hand after the discard.

SET

In SET each card contains 1-3 objects with all of the objects on a card having the same color shape and shading e.g. two purple shaded ovals. Colors shapes and shadings come in three different types: green purple and red; oval diamond and squiggle; and solid shaded and outlined.

All players compete simultaneously and try to claim sets of cards in a single pass through the deck. A set consists of three cards that are either all alike or all different in each attribute. For example if all three cards have the same number of objects but three different shapes shadings and colors then those cards are a set; if two of the cards have a common attribute that is not shared by the third they are not a set.

To play one person takes the deck and lays out twelve cards face up. The first person to spot a set collects those three cards; if the player was mistaken then this player cannot claim a set until after another player has done so. After someone has claimed a set the cardholder lays out three more cards. (If all players agree that no sets can be claimed then the cardholder lays out three more cards. These cards aren't replaced after someone claims a set.) Whoever claims the most sets wins!

Quiddler

Quiddler challenges players to create words from an ever-increasing number of letter cards in their hand. The game lasts eight rounds with three cards being dealt to each player in the first round four cards in the second five in the third and so on. Each card has one or two letters on it as well as a point value.

On a turn a player draws the top card from the deck or discard pile then discards a card. When a player is able to use all of the cards in his hand (with one left for discarding) to spell words — each of which must contain at least two cards — he may go out by placing the words on the table. Each other player takes one final turn then plays as many cards as they can in words. Each player now scores adding the point value for cards used in words then subtracting points for any cards remaining in hand. In addition the player with the most words and the player with the longest word each receive 10 bonus points; in case of a tie no one receives the bonus. Whoever has the highest score after eight rounds wins!

KARMA

In Karma each player is dealt three face-down cards that he cannot look at and that remain on the table in front of him. He is dealt six more cards chooses three of those for his hand and places the remaining three face-up onto his table cards in three separate stacks. One player begins by placing a card or cards of the same value from his hand onto the table face-up to create a discard pile. The other players in turn must place onto the discard stack a card or cards of the same value that match(es) or exceed(s) the value of the top card of the stack; or else pick up the stack. Until the draw pile is gone players must draw at the end of their turns to maintain a hand of at least three cards.

All of a player's hand cards must be played before any of his face-up table cards which must in turn be played before any of his face-down table cards. A few cards allow players to break the foregoing rules. The last player with cards loses the game.