Card Crunch is a fast paced card game that can be played against the computer or your nearby friends. Using the cards in your hand, build on the piles of cards on the Tableau, in a race with your opponent to play your card first. In Multi-Player mode one player is the hosts while the other players search for the host to join the game. Because Card Crunch uses Google's Nearby Services and does not rely on dedicated servers, all players must be in the same location. The Deck and Dealing The Deck consists of cards numbered from 1 through 12 with 2 sets of 4 colors for a total of 96 cards (which means there are two of each number/color combination). The Crunch Cards are five cards from the deck placed face up in a row. Next to that row is the Crunch Pile of 20 cards dealt face down. The Draw Pile consists of the remainder of the deck, placed face down below that row of cards. Tableau The Tableau consists of 24 piles on which you play your cards. A #1 card can be placed on a blank pile. Cards of the same color are placed on these piles from 1 to 12. Once a #12 card is placed on a pile that pile is then cleared and is now available to start again with a #1 card of any color. Crunch Cards These five face up cards are available to be placed on the Tableau by tapping the Crunch Card of your choice, and then tapping a pile in the Tableau. To fill the empty space, tap the Crunch Pile, and another card will appear in its place. Dragging cards to their destination is not an option. Crunch Pile The Crunch Pile is part of the first of two objectives. Once any player has an empty Crunch Pile, the game will stop and the scores will be displayed. The second objective is to get the highest number of points. The number in the lower right corner indicates how many cards are left in the pile. Draw Pile The Draw Pile, along with the Discard Pile, make up the remaining cards in your hand. Each time you tap the Draw Pile it will move 3 cards to the Discard Pile. If the border around the Draw Pile turns red, it means you have cycled around your Draw Pile without placing a card in the Tableau. Once all players (except for robot players) have cycled their Draw Pile twice without playing a card, everyone's Draw Pile will be shifted by one card in order to progress the game. If at anytime during the game there are no cards that can be played from any player's Crunch Cards or Draw Pile, then one card from everyone's Crunch Pile will be moved to their Draw Pile. The number in the lower right corner is the total number of cards in both the Crunch Pile and the Draw Pile. Discard Pile The cards in the Discard Pile are available to be played in the Tableau. Scoring After one of the players has emptied their Crunch Pile, all the cards from the Tableau are counted. For each card a player places on the Tableau they receive 1 point, with the exception of the #12 cards, which are worth 3 points. If a player has any cards left in their Crunch Pile, 2 points for each of those cards are subtracted from their score. Because of this, it is possible to get a negative point score. Even if you are the player that emptied their Crunch Pile first, you may not have earned the most points, since others may have played more cards from the Draw Pile while waiting to play their available Crunch Cards.