TriPeaks
One card either side, and aces go both ways
Solo, in a pool2.5 min a roundCardSkill
Three peaks of cards over a face-up base row. Clear them by taking cards one rank either side of the waste.
How to play
Goal. Clear all three peaks.
- Take any uncovered card whose rank is one above or one below the card on the waste pile. Aces wrap: a king takes an ace and an ace takes a two.
- A card is uncovered once both cards overlapping it are gone.
- When nothing will go, turn a card from the stock — which ends your streak.
Scoring
- Each card in an unbroken run is worth 5 more than the one before: 5, 10, 15 and on.
- +50 for each peak you clear.
- +200 for clearing the board, plus 10 for every card still in the stock, plus 5 for every second left on the clock.
The round lasts two and a half minutes, or until the stock runs out with no move left.
How a pool is decided
- Choose a stake — E5, E10 or E20 — and press Play. Your stake is taken then, and you play straight away. The game is played on our servers: they hold the deal and count your score, and your device shows you the game and sends your moves.
- The clock keeps running if you leave. A run you leave part-way ends when its time is up, with the score you had. You can come back to it while it is still running.
- Your score goes into a pool the moment your run ends: the oldest pool for that game and stake that still has room and that you are not already in — or a new one. You see the pool as soon as your score is in it.
- Everyone in a pool plays the identical deal, so the only difference between scores is how each person played it. You are never given a deal you have played before.
- A pool pays the moment it has 5 scores, from 5 different players. The highest score is first and receives 50% of the pot, second 30% and third 10%; the platform keeps 10%. If two scores are equal, whoever finished first ranks higher.
- A pool that does not have its 5 scores 6 hours after its first is cancelled, and every stake in it comes back in full.
- If our side lets you down — the game never opens on your device, or our server restarts in the middle of your run — your stake comes back in full.
- Where a game pays for time left on the clock, it pays only when you finish the game — never when you get stuck, bust or run out of moves.
- Practice is free, up to 10 times a day in each game: your own board, with nothing staked and nothing ranked.
- Winnings land in your Crazy8s wallet, and you can move them to your mobile money whenever you want.
