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Peg your way to 121

Cribbage is a two-player race to 121 points. You score as you lay cards to a running count, then score your hand again at the show, and every other hand the crib is yours to count too.

  • 2 players
  • Lesson included
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Cribbage is one of the 21 games in Cards Royale.

Cribbage in Cards Royale on iPhone

How it plays

Cribbage in three steps.

  1. Each player gets six cards and puts two into the dealer's crib, then one more card is cut and turned up as the starter.

  2. Take turns laying cards to a running count, scoring for fifteen, thirty-one, pairs and runs, and saying go when nothing fits.

  3. At the show you count fifteens, pairs, runs, flushes and nobs with the starter, and the first to 121 wins on the spot.

How to Play Cribbage: Learn in 90 Seconds · 1:25. Pressing play loads the video from YouTube.

Read the full rules of Cribbage

Did you know? Cribbage is credited to the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 1600s.

The moments you play for

Why Cribbage gets under your skin.

A cozy evening for two.

Peg out

Reach 121 and the game stops at once, even in the middle of the show, and uncounted hands never count.

Dealer's jack

Turn up a jack as the starter and the dealer takes two points at once, which can even win the game.

Skunk them

Win before your opponent reaches ninety-one and it is a skunk, and before sixty-one, a double skunk.

Screenshots

Cribbage on every screen.

The same table on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the iPhone Duo. Scroll sideways to see them all.

  • Cribbage in Cards Royale on iPhoneiPhone
  • Cribbage in Cards Royale on iPhone Duo, half openiPhone Duo, half open
  • Cribbage in Cards Royale on iPhone Duo, unfoldediPhone Duo, unfolded
  • Cribbage in Cards Royale on iPhone Duo, foldediPhone Duo, folded
  • Cribbage in Cards Royale on iPad, landscapeiPad, landscape
  • Cribbage in Cards Royale on iPad, portraitiPad, portrait
  • Cribbage in Cards Royale on MacMac

Deal me in for Cribbage.

It is one of 21 classics in Cards Royale. Free, with no ads.

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