Cribbage

DEAL

A standard deck of 52 cards is used. Six cards are dealt to two players. Each player chooses 2 cards for the Cribbage hand, making three hands with 4 cards in each. The next card in the deck is turned over as the starter card. If it is a Jack the dealer scores 2 points.

PLAY

The non-dealer leads any card. The dealer then plays a card and adds the rank of both cards together. The King, Queen and Jack count as 10, the Ace counts as 1 while all other cards count their numeric value. Cards are played back and forth until the player cannot lay a card without the count going over 31. This player must say 'Go' and let the opposition play until they cannot lay a card without exceeding 31. The player calling 'Go' must then lead the next series starting over at 0. The first player to reach 121 points wins the game.

SCORING DURING PLAY

A player receives 2 points by laying a card that brings the total to exactly 15 or 31.

A player receives 2 points for laying a card with the same rank as the previous card. 3 of a kind scores 6 points. 4 of a kind scores 12 points.

Laying a card that makes a sequence of 3 or more cards scores 1 point for each card in the sequence. The cards do not need to be in order but no other cards may intervene. For example, the cards 5,7,4 are played. Laying a 6 would score 4 points for the sequence 4,5,6,7, but laying a 3 would score nothing because the 7 is intervening the sequence 3,4,5.

SCORING HANDS

After all cards have been played, all three hands including the Cribbage hand are scored using the starter as the fifth card in each hand. The points for the Cribbage hand are given to the dealer.

His Nobs - If the hand contains a Jack with the same suit as the starter card it counts 1 point.

Flush - If the 4 cards in the hand all are of the same suit it counts 4 points. If the starter card is also of the same suit it counts 5 points.

Fifteen - Every combination of cards that add up to 15 count 2 points. The King, Queen and Jack count as 10, the Ace counts as 1 while all other cards count their numeric value.

Set - A pair of cards of the same rank counts 2 points. 3 of a kind counts 6 points. 4 of a kind counts 12 points.

Run - Every sequence combination of 3 or more cards counts 1 point for each card in the sequence. A hand of 2,2,3,4,4 counts 12 points because there are 4 combinations of 3-card sequences 2,3,4.