Five Crowns is an easy to learn yet challenging card game. This game provides a fun twist on gin rummy, with more cards and slightly more complex rules. The deck for Five Crowns uses five suits, and there are no twos or aces. In the first round, players receive three cards. Each subsequent round starts with one additional card. Wild cards change with each round, so players must mentally keep track of the right wild card as well as the discard pile. Like many card games, Five Crowns provides a good opportunity to help students improve their flexible thinking, attention, and working memory skills, though parents should always be cautious that these games can cause frustration for students with weaker skills. Five Crowns could be particularly difficult given the later rounds have 10+ cards to manage. Overall, Five Crowns is a good option for families looking for a fresh alternative card game, but not everyone will find it unique enough to be worth purchasing.

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Adults would enjoy playing with a child
• For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
• Can be fun as a single player game
• Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
• Well-made for the cost
• For electronic games, can play without sound
• For electronic games, allows user to save work
• For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Fine Motor Skills
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation
• Visual Discrimination
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Visual Memory
• Visual Motor Speed
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation
• Working Memory
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently

Five Crowns is a five suited rummy style card game. This award winning, classic game is a quick favorite for both avid and casual card players. Five Crowns features a unique double deck that contains 5 suits: spades, clubs, hearts, diamonds, and stars. This special deck makes it easier to arrange your entire hand into books and runs. The rotating wild card keeps players on their toes! The game begins with 3 cards and 3s are wild, the next round has 4 cards and 4s are wild and so on ‘til the Kings Go Wild! Make the right combinations, be the first to go out, then watch players scramble as they get one last chance to cut their losses! Five Crowns is loved by everyone, easy to play anywhere and a game that you’ll want to play again and again.