Q&A for How to Play Cribbage

Yes! You can score the points you need to peg out at any time during the round.

Yes. The cards are shuffled by the dealer, and then the dealer offers the deck to his opponent (or the player to his left if there are more than 2 players) for the cards to be cut by that player. The dealer is allowed to re-shuffle the cards after they have been cut, but if he does so, the cards must be cut again (see above) prior to him dealing them out. Only one re-shuffle is allowed by the dealer per turn.

You can use any of your cards at any time that you haven't used as long as you don't go over 31.

The first 10 played earns 0 points, the second 10 played earns 2 points as a pair, and the third 10 played earns 6 points.

Always left. The pegging also starts from the left, so does counting points at the end.

16. The run of A,2,3 would count four times, because A(1),2,3(1) is a run, as are A(1),2,3(2), A(2),2,3(1), and A(2),2,3(2), each for 3 points, and then the A,A pair and 3,3 pair each count for 2.

If you are the dealer, yes.

No, because the count starts over after 31. If he or she has an ace, he can play it - but if not, it is a go situation where you can play an ace. If you do not have an ace, you get a point for the go, and the count starts over again.

You would play with three teams of two, dealing five cards to each team, and dealing a random card to the crib. So each team and the crib ends up with four cards.

12 points. Every combination of two sevens and an ace totals 15 for two points. Since you can get three unique pairs of sevens out of three sevens (7#1 & 7#2, 7#1 & 7#3, and 7#2 & 7#3) and combine each of those pairs of sevens with the ace to total 15, that alone gets you six points (two points for each of the three fifteens that you made). Add to those six points the six points for having three sevens (known as a "pair royal" or triplet) to arrive at a total of 12 points. But that only covers four cards -- don't forget that you also get to use the cut-card (or "up card" or "starter card") as the fifth card of your hand.

The score would be 24 points! 4 sevens contain 6 unique pairs of sevens (such as 7#1 + 7#2, 7#1 +7#3, etc.). Combining each of these six pairs of sevens with the ace equals six fifteens, which are worth 2 points each, equaling 12 points. Add to those 12 points the 12 more points for the four sevens (known as a "double pair royal" or "quads") to get your grand total of 24 points.

The person who did not deal, or the person to the left of the dealer, cuts the deck but leaves the cards face-down. The dealer then turns over the top card and the person to his/her left begins the round by laying down a card to start pegging.

You need two. You move the one that is the farthest behind so everyone knows what your previous point value was.

You deal 5 and place 1 card randomly from the deck to be the last required card for the crib.

On the pegging, the first person on the dealer's left side starts. Same goes for counting points.

If you bring the count to 31, you get to peg 2 points for 31, but you do NOT get a go point also.

Use as many cards as you would for three players because six players will need to play in teams of two.

4 of a kind is 12 points. 3 of a kind is 6, and a pair is 2 points in cribbage.

The other player.

No, Nibs scores as one point. The only time Nibs scores as two points, is if you are the dealer and you turn it over as the face up card after the fifth card cut.

Aces are always low in cribbage, even when cutting to see who deals first (low card deals first).

The player who did not deal the first hand, or if you are playing with more than 2 people, it is always the person to the dealer's left.

In cribbage, an ace is only worth one, unlike other games where it is worth eleven.

You have to count up to a run of four, so a run of three is already there.

The highest scoring cribbage hand you can get is worth 29 points. It consists of a Jack and three fives. The cut card is the five of the same suit as the Jack. So, there are actually four different hands that are worth 29 (each suit).

The cut card is used when tallying your hand after play. It tallies separately with each player's hand and the crib.

A-4-5-5-5: That's 14 points. You have 8 points for the four 15s plus 6 for the three pairs.

The person that deals always gets the crib, so if it's 2 people, the other player gets the crib, if more than 2 then the player to the left of the original dealer gets it.

You say "go" if you can't play any more cards without going over 31. After this, the other person can continue to play cards until they can't play either.

A pair is worth two points in Cribbage, while three of a kind is worth six points because it can form three pairs.