{"id":11335,"date":"2026-08-20T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=11335"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:27:34","slug":"crashed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/crashed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Crashed Out."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Crashed Out<\/a> is a new $10 card-shedding game with a memory component as well as some hidden cards, playing very quickly and allowing for a little strategy because many of the cards in the deck either have immediate effects when discarded or allow you to ignore them if you collect enough. It\u2019s a little similar to Cabo and the Silver series, but plays faster, and sits more on the bridge between a card game and a party game than those titles do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal in Crashed Out is to have the lowest total value of your cards when the game ends, so most of the time you\u2019ll be trying to replace high-valued cards or cards of unknown value with low-valued cards. The game ends when one player decides they\u2019re good with their cards and says \u201cCrash Out!\u201d or when any player discards the single value-20 card in the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You begin the game with six cards face-down in front of you in two rows of three. You can look at the first row before you, but just once. On each turn, you draw a card from the deck, and choose to discard it or to keep it and discard any other card from your tableau, in which case you reveal the discarded card. If the card you discard is a 6, 7, 8, or 9, you must take the action shown on the card: 6 lets you draw a card and put it face-down in front of an opponent, 7 and 8 allow you to peek at any card in front of any player (including you), and 9 lets you swap one of your cards with an opponent\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If you discard a card and you have one or more matching cards in your tableau, you can discard those as well \u2013 and so can other players, even though it\u2019s not their turn. If, however, you discard a card that doesn\u2019t match, you take it back and draw another card, without looking at it, as a penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deck has cards valued from 0 through 12, 15, and the lone value-20 card. Cards 0 through 9 always count towards your total points at game-end. The cards valued 10 through 12 also count for their face values unless you have a set or three or more, in which case they all cancel each other out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a player is satisfied with their cards, they can call \u201cCrash Out!\u201d to end the game, after which each other player will get one more turn. The player who called the end takes the Shield card, so other players can\u2019t give them new cards or swap cards out on those final turns. However, if someone discards the 20 card, whether or not they did so deliberately, the game ends immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result is a game that\u2019s very fast-moving, offers a little bit of strategy, and gives you the social aspects of surprise moves, take-that tactics, and the occasional mistake. I\u2019m not a party-game person in general because most party games are kind of dumb, especially ones that try to make you cringe, or that rely on inane questions. Crashed Out is a party-adjacent game that makes you think, as if someone took Scout or the aforementioned Cabo and reimagined them as highly social instead. It\u2019s a grade B+ game for me, which is about as high as I\u2019ll go on anything that bills itself as a party game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crashed Out is a new $10 card-shedding game with a memory component as well as some hidden cards, playing very quickly and allowing for a little strategy because many of the cards in the deck either have immediate effects when discarded or allow you to ignore them if you collect enough. It\u2019s a little similar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,408,161,954],"class_list":["post-11335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boardgames","tag-card-games","tag-highly-recommended","tag-party-games","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11336,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335\/revisions\/11336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}