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Crabby31, that’s the card game Thirty-one orBig Tonka, Nickel Nock or Blitz as it is also called. This is theGerman variation of the game (Schwimmen). It can be played againstup to eight computer players. Moreover you’re able to seestatistics about your wins. You get all that for free, without ads,and without permissions. Consequently the app does not access yourpersonal data or the Internet. In-game help is provided.RULES OF THE GAME:Your goal is to score as many points as possible with a hand ofthree cards. In doing so, an ace counts eleven, king, queen andjack count 10, and the other cards count face value. You can add upthe score of the single cards, if the cards are of the same suit.The highest score possible amounts to 31, which is called a"blitz". It can be achieved, for example, by an ace, a king and aten of the same suit. Besides, three cards of the same rank (e. g.three jacks) count as a score of 30 ½.At first, the dealer chooses to put her cards face-up on thetable or to keep her cards. In the first case she gets new cardsfrom the stack. In the second case she puts three new cards fromthe stack on the table.Then the game starts. The players take turns and have thefollowing options:1) Discard one card to the table and pick up one card from thetable (choose this option by touching both cards)2) Pick up all cards from the table and discard all player cards tothe table (Button "Swap all")3) Do nothing (Button "Pass")4) "Knock". The other players have one more turn each and then thegame ends.5) Take new cards from the stock and put them on the table (Button"New cards"), but only if there is a seven, an eight and a nine onthe table. You have one more turn after choosing this option.If all players choose "pass", new cards are drawn from the stockto the table.The game ends immediately, if one player’s score is 31 (blitz)or if one player holds three aces.Finally all players show their hands. The player with the lowestscore loses the game. If more than one player have the same lowestscore, each of them loses. But if one of the players with thelowest score has knocked, only this one loses the game. If oneplayer holds 3 aces, all other players lose the game regardless oftheir score.At the start of a series every player has three tokens. If aplayer loses a game, she also loses a token. Only in the specialcase of two players playing the game and one of them having threeaces, the loser of the game has to give up two tokens. When aplayer has lost all of her tokens, she continues to play on a "freeride". Losing again, she is eliminated from the series. The lastremaining player in the series has won the series. If she stillowns all three of her tokens, she has "won with crown".