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Five Crowns Score Calculator & Score Sheet

Eleven rounds, rotating wild cards, and the lowest total takes it. Enter each round's leftover-card points and the crown finds the low score — free, for 2 to 7 players.

Score Calculator

Round
Round 1 (3s wild)3 cards dealt
Round 2 (4s wild)4 cards dealt
Round 3 (5s wild)5 cards dealt
Round 4 (6s wild)6 cards dealt
Round 5 (7s wild)7 cards dealt
Round 6 (8s wild)8 cards dealt
Round 7 (9s wild)9 cards dealt
Round 8 (10s wild)10 cards dealt
Round 9 (Jacks wild)11 cards dealt
Round 10 (Queens wild)12 cards dealt
Round 11 (Kings wild)13 cards dealt
TotalLowest wins00

This calculator adds your eleven rounds, crowns the lowest total, and forgets everything when you leave. Round-by-round scoring, saved games, and player stats live in the free Meeply app →

How Five Crowns Scoring Works

Eleven numbers per player, one per round — each one the points stranded in your hand when somebody went out. Melded cards are free; leftovers cost face value, 11–13 for the court, 20 for the round's wild card, and 50 for a Joker. Lowest total after round eleven wins.

1Round 1 (3s wild)

Shuffle both 58-card decks together, deal three cards to each player, and flip the top card of the draw pile to start the discard pile. On your turn you draw from the pile or take the top discard, then discard one card to finish. With only three cards in hand, a single book or run is a whole hand - somebody usually goes out fast. Score the cards you couldn't meld and enter them here.

2Round 2 (4s wild)

Four cards each, and now the 4s join the Jokers as wild. A book is three or more cards of the same value in any mix of suits - two 8s and a wild card counts. There is no limit on how many wilds a book can hold, and they can sit next to each other. Four cards means a book or run of three still leaves one card exposed unless you stretch the meld to all four.

3Round 3 (5s wild)

Five cards, 5s wild. A run is three or more consecutive cards in the same suit - and this deck has five suits, because Five Crowns adds stars to the usual hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds. Each suit runs 3 through King with no aces or 2s, so runs start at 3 and stop at the King. Wild cards can fill any gap in a run, as many as you like.

4Round 4 (6s wild)

Six cards, 6s wild. Wild cards are wonderful in a meld and terrible in a stranded hand: a leftover wild card of the current round costs 20 points, and a leftover Joker costs 50. The rulebook allows one mercy - if a wild card is stuck in your hand with nowhere to go, you may discard it. It saves you the points, though it might hand the next player a gift.

5Round 5 (7s wild)

Seven cards, 7s wild. Going out is the round-ender: start your turn as normal, lay your entire hand down in books and/or runs, and discard your final card. You can only use the number of cards you were dealt, and you must have that one card left to discard - even if the discard itself is playable. Keep melds in your hand until the turn you go out.

6Round 6 (8s wild)

Eight cards, 8s wild. Once someone goes out, everyone else gets exactly one more turn: draw or pick up as usual, lay down every book and run you can, then discard. Whatever refuses to meld counts against you. You are not allowed to play cards onto another player's books or runs - your leftovers are yours alone.

7Round 7 (9s wild)

Nine cards, 9s wild. The tally itself is simple: melded cards score nothing, and every unused card counts at its value. Number cards are worth face value, Jacks are 11, Queens are 12, Kings are 13, the current wild card is 20, and Jokers are 50. Add up the stranded cards, and that is the number that goes in this row.

8Round 8 (10s wild)

Ten cards, 10s wild. Housekeeping from the rulebook: if the draw pile ever runs dry, shuffle the discard pile to replenish it, and if you lose track of which card is wild, count your hand - the number of cards you were dealt is the wild card for the round. Ten cards dealt, 10s wild.

9Round 9 (Jacks wild)

Eleven cards, and the wilds climb into the face cards: Jacks are wild. The deal rotates too - the player to the left of the last dealer shuffles everything and deals the next round, one card bigger each time. Face-card rounds are where careless hands get expensive, since every stranded court card is double digits.

10Round 10 (Queens wild)

Twelve cards, Queens wild. With hands this big, one unfinished run can strand fifty-plus points, and the standings can lurch. That is by design - the box slogan is "The game isn't over 'til the Kings go wild!" and the rulebook's first hint says the same thing: you can come from behind even in the last round.

11Round 11 (Kings wild)

The finale: thirteen cards each, and the Kings go wild. Score it like every other round - melded cards free, stranded cards at value - then read the totals below. In Five Crowns the lowest total wins, so the crown on this calculator sits over the smallest number, not the biggest. Tied for low? The rulebook offers a choice: share the win, or deal a 6-card tie-breaking round for just the tied players.

Why the Crown Sits on the Smallest Number

Nearly every game on this site races upward; Five Crowns runs the other way. Every point you write down is a penalty — a card you failed to fold into a book or run before someone went out — so the winner is the player with the lowest total after eleven rounds. The calculator above knows that: the crown marks the smallest total on the board, not the biggest, and a perfect game is a row of zeros. It also means no round is fatal on its own. A stranded Joker is 50 points, ugly but survivable, and the deals keep growing until the Kings go wild — which is exactly when a big hand full of melds can haul you back into it.

Looking for a Five Crowns Score Sheet?

If you came here hunting for a Five Crowns score sheet to print, the calculator above does the same job with the math built in — all eleven rounds labeled with their wild card, a column for each of up to seven players, running totals, and the crown already on the lowest score. It forgets everything when you leave, though. For a score sheet that remembers — every game, every player, every win — Five Crowns is one of 300+ games in the free Meeply app.

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Five Crowns Scoring Questions

How do you score Five Crowns?
You score at the end of each of the 11 rounds. When a player goes out, everyone else takes one last turn and lays down every book and run they can. Cards used in books and runs score nothing; every card left unused in your hand counts against you - number cards at face value, Jacks 11, Queens 12, Kings 13, the current wild card 20, and Jokers 50. Add each round to a running total, and after round 11 the lowest total wins.
What are the wild cards in Five Crowns?
Jokers are always wild. On top of that, one rank rotates in as wild each round, matching the number of cards dealt: 3s are wild in the 3-card first round, 4s in the 4-card second round, and so on up the deck until Jacks (round 9), Queens (round 10), and finally Kings in the 13-card last round. If you ever forget which card is wild, count your hand - the number of cards you were dealt is the wild rank.
How many points is a Joker worth in Five Crowns?
A Joker stranded in your hand costs 50 points - the most expensive card in the game. The current round's wild card costs 20, Kings 13, Queens 12, Jacks 11, and number cards their face value. None of that applies to cards you melded into books or runs; only unused cards score.
Is the lowest score the winner in Five Crowns?
Yes. Five Crowns is a penalty-point game: everything you score is cards you failed to meld, so the player with the lowest total after 11 rounds wins. The calculator on this page crowns the lowest total, and the Meeply app handles lowest-score-wins automatically too - no mental gymnastics at the end of the night.
How many rounds are in Five Crowns?
Exactly 11. The first round deals 3 cards per player and the deal grows by one card each round to 13 in the last, with the wild card rotating to match the deal - hence the slogan, "The game isn't over 'til the Kings go wild!"
What happens when someone goes out in Five Crowns?
Going out means starting your turn as normal, laying your entire hand on the table in books and/or runs, and discarding your one remaining card - the discard is required even if it's playable. Everyone else then gets exactly one more turn to draw, lay down whatever melds they can, and discard. Cards that don't fit a meld count toward their score, and nobody may play onto another player's books or runs.
What happens if there is a tie in Five Crowns?
The rulebook gives tied-for-lowest players two options: simply have multiple winners, or deal a special 6-card tie-breaking round played only by the tied players.
How many players can play Five Crowns?
The box says 1 to 7 - yes, one: the rulebook includes a solitaire variant where you race to close out 11 piles before the draw pile runs dry. This calculator covers 2 to 7 scorekeeping players. Hosting a crowd? The rulebook suggests combining two copies of the game to play with up to 14 people.
Can you play Five Crowns with regular cards?
Not cleanly. Five Crowns uses two 58-card decks with five suits - stars join hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds - and each suit runs 3 through King with no aces or 2s, plus six Jokers across the two decks. A standard 52-card deck has no star suit, has aces and 2s the game doesn't use, and comes with only two or three Jokers, so a home-brew substitute never quite matches the real deck.
Does Meeply support Five Crowns?
Yes - Five Crowns is one of 300+ games with rules-aware scoresheets in the Meeply app. It tracks the game round by round through all 11 deals, and lowest-score-wins is handled automatically, so the winner the app shows is the actual winner. Free to try.