Caps and Crown

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Caps and Crown

This game had its origins in the 1920s when parents had to find ways to keep children occupied. The objective of the game is for each player to use completely the 83 pieces that is given by making words.

Pieces The 83 consists:

A E I O U 5 PIECES EACH
B C D F G H J T 4 PIECES EACH
K L M N P 3 PIECES EACH
Q R S 2 PIECES EACH
V W X Y Z 1 PIECE EACH

The Board The playing board consists of 18 squares across and 18 squares downwards with a block of 10 squares in the tenth line from the bottom being specially marked out. This is the CROWN of the board.

The player who starts first uses this CROWN to place a group of bottle caps with form a word with at least 5 letters. The ideal move is to start with a tenth letter word and occupy the space of the CROWN completely

Playing the game To start dice is thrown, the player with the highest score get to start first.

The player who starts first has to start with a word that has at least 5 letters e.g. EURASIAN, which is an eight-letter word

The next player uses anyone of the letters to complete his word e.g. from EURASIAN The word UNCLE can be made

Note the following 1) Country names are not allowed except the following: a. BRAZIL b. CHINA c. HOLLAND d. JAPAN

2) Personal names are not allowed except the following a. ERNEST b. FRANK c. JACK d. NAPLOLEON e. PETER f. SUE

3) Names of currency are allowed a. DOLLAR b. GROURDE c. LEK d. RINGGIT e. XU

How the Game ends

When one player has used all 83 pieces that player is the winner. The other players will have to count how many pieces are left in the following point system:

V W X Y Z 1 POINT EACH Q R S 2 POINTS EACH K L M N P 3 POINTS EACH B C D F G H J T 4 POINTS EACH A E I O U 5 POINTS EACH

These are called de merits points