Cribbage

1630
BGG Geek Rating
6.8
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BGG Average Rating
7.1
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BGG Ranking
#741
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Players
2-6
Weight
2.53/5.00
Playtime
30 min
Age
10+
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⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

Score-and-Reset Game Hand Management Turn Order: Progressive Race

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Card Game Number

🎨 Artists

(Uncredited)

🏢 Publishers

5th Peg Acme Ruler Company Are-Jay Game Company Brimtoy C.R. Gibson Cardinal Chad Valley Co Ltd. CHH Games Chronicle Books Coca-Cola Creative Crafthouse Crisloid Decipher Double Diamond E. S. Lowe Company Inc. EnumeroCribbageBoards Fame Products Field Mfg. Co. Frameworth Sports Marketing Fundex Gapple Gibsons Halsall Horn House Martin House of Marbles Hoyle Products JK Games John Jaques of London John Player & Sons John Waddington Ltd. Lash's Bitters MacGregor Historic Games Man-indo Milton Bradley Montrose Games LLC Nu-Bef Pacific Game Company Pavilion Piatnik Playtoy Industries Pleasantime Games Pressman Toy Corp. (Public Domain) Schweppes (Self-Published) Skor-Mor Sterling Games The United States Playing Card Company (Unknown) W. D. & H. O. Wills Waddingtons Whitman Wood Expressions Woodstock Spiele

📖 About This Game

Cribbage is a card game invented in the early 17th century, based on the earlier game Noddy. It is played with a deck of standard playing cards and a signature piece of equipment called the cribbage board. Cribbage is traditionally played as a 2 player game. In the version usually played today, each player is dealt a hand of 6 cards, from which they discard 2 into a special pile called the Crib. One card is then cut from the draw pile and turned face up - it is considered part of each player's hand and of the Crib. The players then play cards in turn, scoring points for hitting certain totals, or for making sets or sequences. Score is kept by moving pegs along tracks on the cribbage board. This is repeated until both players have exhausted their hand of cards. Next, each player picks up their hand and determines all possible scoring combinations, pegging points again on the cribbage board. The dealer then picks up the Crib and scores it for all possible points. Then the cards are shuffled and the deal alternates. The winner is the first to reach 121 points. The origin date listed for this game is approximate.