Cribbage Square

PLAY

Cards are placed from the deck into a 4x4 grid which represents eight Cribbage hands - 4 horizontal rows and 4 vertical columns. After all 16 cards are placed in the grid the next card is flipped up to make the starter card in all eight hands. The object of the game is to maximize the total score from adding up all eight Cribbage hands.

SCORING

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 combination of sequence 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.