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Crown and Anchor is a simple dice game, traditionally played for gambling purposes by sailors in the Royal Navy as well as those in the British merchant and fishing fleets.

The game originated in the 18th century. It is still popular in the Channel Islands and Bermuda, but is strictly controlled and may be played legally only on certain occasions, such as the Channel Islands' agricultural shows or annual Liberation Day celebrations or Bermuda's annual Cup Match cricket game. Three special dice are used in Crown and Anchor. The dice are equal in size and shape to standard dice, but instead of one through six pips, they are marked with six symbols: crown, anchor, diamond, spade, club and heart. (The last four are the same symbols used on playing cards.)

A similar version of the game is played in Nepal, called "Langur Burja" There is a similar Flemish version called Anker en Zon ("Anchor and Sun"), in which a sun symbol replaces the crown. The French version again uses the sun, and is called Ancre, Pique, et Soleil ("Anchor, Spade, and Sun"). A similar game played in China called Hoo Hey How (魚蝦蟹, Fish Prawn Crab in Hokkien) and Vietnam called or Bầu cua cá cọp (lit. 'gourd crab shrimp fish').

Crown and Anchor is one of the dice games played in the detective series Foyle's War, episode 15, "Casualties of War." The game is mentioned in Terry Pratchett's 2012 book Dodger. The game is mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 1972 book Gravity's Rainbow. The game plays a significant part in Ronald Hugh Morrieson's 1985 novel Came a Hot Friday, which suggests that the game was popular (although possibly not legal) in New Zealand at the time. In Dorothy L. Sayers' 1937 mystery novel Busman's Honeymoon, two "lads" play the game on the steps of the Wesleyan Chapel. In Passport to Pimlico' 1949 film, the game is played on a stall at a street market. The game is mentioned in season 1, episode 2 of the Netflix series Thieves of the Wood. When his battery gets to North Africa, the game is mentioned numerous times throughout Spike Milligan's war memoirs as they play it on the down time between action. Crown and Anchor appears at least twice in David Jones's prose poem In Parenthesis. In Part 4, Dai Greatcoat states: “I served Longinus that Dux bat blind and bent; / the Dandy Xth are my regiment; / who diced / Crown and Mud hook / under the Tree.” In Part 5, Jones depicts the privates playing the game just outside battalion headquarters: “outside, across the yard, the dozen H. Q. details bunched to cast lots with: / Old Johnny Fairplay all the way from Bombay / to have a little bit on the lucky Mud hook.”
In The Wheel of Time book series by Robert Jordan, a popular dice game among gamblers is crowns which uses similar rules to Crown & Anchor.