Place one crown in every row, every column and every coloured region — and no two crowns may touch, not even at a corner. Tap once to cross a square out, twice to crown it. Every board has exactly one arrangement that works.
The same walkthrough the table opens with — you can replay it in the game at any time.
The board is split into coloured regions. Every row, every column and every region gets exactly one crown.
Tapping a square cycles it: a cross to rule it out, a crown to claim it, then empty again. Crossing squares out is how you keep track of what a placed crown forbids.
Two crowns may not sit next to each other in any direction, diagonals included. A crown in red is clashing with another one.
Small regions are the way in: a colour squeezed into one row settles that row, and everything else follows from there.
Yes. Crowns is free to play on PlayTable, and playing against the AI does not even need an account.
A browser. Crowns runs on any modern phone, tablet or computer, and you can add PlayTable to your home screen if you want it to open like an app.
Yes. Sign in with your email, create a lobby, and share the six-character code or the invite link. Everyone plays from their own device, and the match is checked on the server so nobody can see a hand that is not theirs.
Yes — Crowns opens with a guided tutorial on the real table that points at the real cards, and the steps above are that same walkthrough. It takes about two minutes.