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Cribbage is a challenging game played with a deck of playing cards and a cribbage board. It is basically a hybrid -- a cross between a board game and a card game. There are several different playing styles, but this page will show you how to play cribbage the traditional way.
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Step 2: Play
- The dealer should deal six cards to each player
- Each player discards two cards to form the crib
- The player to the dealer's left cuts the remaining deck in half
- If a Jack comes up, the dealer earns 2 points
- Earning a point means moving the peg forward a space (so the dealer would move 2 spaces if a Jack came up)
- One peg is meant to be a place holder, while one peg actually makes the move when points are earned
- Players lay down cards in turn, calling out the numerical value of the total (faces are 10, aces are 1, number cards retain their value)
- If a player lays down a card that makes the total exactly 15, they get a point
- A player who matches the last card laid down (to make a pair) earns 2 points-- the third card of a kind earns 6 points, the fourth earns 12
- If a player cannot lay down a card without making the count exceed 31, she or he says "go"
- If the other player(s) can go, they continue to lay down cards until they can no longer do so without exceeding a count of 31
- The last person who is able to lay down a card gets 1 point, and if their last card made the total count exactly 31, they earn 2 points
Step 3: Scoring
When the hand has been played, it is time to count up the 4 cards each player was originally dealt. Pairs equal 2 points, 3 of a kind equal 6 points, 4 of a kind equal 12 points. Straights of 3 or more equal one point per card. The dealer scores for both her or his hand, as well as the crib. A new player deals each game, and the winner is the first player to reach 121 points.
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