There is currently a King Crab card in the Ocean. This player has two King Crab cards in their hand.

There must always be four cards in the Ocean at all times and you must have four cards in your hand. To take a card from the Ocean you must replace it with a card from your hand.

Once the round begins all of the players on the current side can start exchanging the cards from their hand with those in the Ocean. You may play as quickly or as slowly as you want. The objective of the game is to try and get four Crab Cards of the same type in your hand at the same time.Īll of the players on the current side of the table will play at the same time. Point the Crabbing License towards the chosen side.

Choose one of the two sides of the table to go first.

If there are extra Crab Tokens, return them to the box. Place eight Crab Tokens in the middle of the table to form the Crab Pot.

Take the top four cards from the Draw Pile and turn them face up next to the Crabbing License.

Put the Crabbing License next to the Draw Pile.

Place the remaining cards face down on the table.

Deal four cards face down to each player. Remove all of the cards from those two types of cards.

If there are only two or three teams, choose two types of Crab cards.

There should be one player from each team on each side. You don’t need to be exactly diagonal from one another, but there should be some space so all of the players can potentially see when you exchange signals with your teammate.

Each player should sit diagonally across the table from their partner.

If your signal feels like it is cheating, it is considered cheating.

For example no touching your teammate under the table.

You must use signals that the other players could potentially see.

You can’t use words, numbers or anything vocal for your clue.

When coming up with these signals you must follow these rules:

Before the game each team should come up with non-verbal signals/clues that they will use during the game to indicate to their teammate that they have collected four crab cards of the same type.

The objective of You’ve Got Crabs is to catch more crabs than the other teams by the end of the game.

Signal card game rules