Cribbage

What you need in Cribbage

  • Cribbage board
  • Standard 52 card deck
  • Pegs of 2 different colors (if they don't come with the board use thumbtacks of two different colors)
  • Two or four people

How to Get Points and What the Play is

  • Run- When you have three or more cards in consecutive order. For example, Ace, One, and a Two that is a Run. But, if you have a King, Queen, and an Ace, you get no points.
  • Double Run- When you have a Double and a Run.
  • Triple Run- When you have a Triple and a Run
  • Flush- When you have a hand of card with all the same suit. The suits are Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts, and Spades.
  • Double, Triples, and Quadruples- When you have cards that are the same kind. Doubles two of a kind, Triple three of a kind, Quadruple four of a kind.
  • Fifteens- This is when you have cards in you had that when you add up your cards you have a sum of fifteen. If you have two tens and two fives, you would have four fifteens. When adding fifteens, you can repeat using cards, but not with the same card you just added, it would need to be a different suit to be valid.
  • His Nob- this is when you have a Jack and it has the same suit as the turn up card.

How Many Points You Get

  • Run- 3 point for a three cards Run. 4 points for a four cards Run. 5 points for a five cards Run
  • Double Run- 8 points with four cards. 10 points with five cards. This combines the point for the Run and the Double
  • Triple Run- 15 points with five cards, it only works with five cards. This combines
  • Double- 2 points two cards
  • Triple- 6 points three cards
  • Quadruple- 12 points five cards
  • Fifteens- 2 points
  • His Nob- 1 point

Key Terms

  • Turn Up Card- When the deck is cut and the card on the top is flipped so you can see what it is.
  • Dealer- The person who deals the cards out to the players
  • Opponent- The person or people going against the dealer
  • Show- When the cards you have are revealed in way which you can also gather points
  • Play- Directly after the 'Show' where you you can gather points by getting thirty-one or fifteen by adding all the showed cards
  • Go- This ends the 'Play'
  • Crib- Where the cards that don't help you get points if it isn't your Crib. Also where cards go to help you get more points. It is like an extra hand of cards
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