Simple rules to cribbage help needed

I found this site's explanation not bad:
http://www.learnplaywin.net/cribbage/cribbage-rules.htm

Not familiar with a link but I've been playing cribbage for years. Got any specific questions?

I just took a quick look at this link and agree with TTH that it's pretty straightforward in it's explanations.

If you're using a cribbage board you don't need to worry about total scores because the 'streets' of 30 are laid out for you. Just complete two full circuits around the board and you will have moved 120 points. First one to go past the end of the 2nd circuit wins. Some boards have 120 holes laid out in a single circuit like the picture of the one in the link.

Thank you kindly for this link. I think a novice like myself may be able to follow that. We'll see.


No specific questions at this time, but that might change, as I dig into it. I find the scoring gets a bit over-whelming.

I did go out and buy one of those standard wooden crib boards that have 120 holes laid out for each player, with the 121st hole for the winner.



I'll let you guys know how I do. :wink:

Have fun -- it's a good two-person game.

Okay, here's a quick question:

When each person gets dealt 6 cards, you're then supposed to throw away 2 cards each into a separate crib pile meant for the dealer. How does one determine which 2 cards to throw away? Is there a strategy for this?

I'm going to have to check this out reyn

I don't play or know how to play cribbage, but I found the following info.

Cribbage Strategy for Discarding for Your Opponents Crib

There is no such thing as a safe crib, but here are several ways you can reduce the chances for giving your opponent a big crib.

1. Avoid discarding cards that add up to five, a 3 and 2, or a 4 and 1.
2. Avoid giving the Q, J or 3, 4; they often produce runs. J has also a 25% chance of counting one point as Nobs.
3. Avoid two cards with just one between such as Q-10, 10-8 combination as it only takes one card from the dealer to complete the sequence.
4. Avoid 7s and 8s; they are big hand builders.
5. Don't discard two cards of the same suit.
So the good cribbage discard onto opponent's crib is: 10-K, 9-K, 6-K, 6-Q, 9-Q, 8-K, 7-10, 6-10, A-Q, 7-Q, 7-K, 8-Q, A-K and so on

Sometimes it pays to give your opponent something good. If four of your cards combine to make a good hand then, give your opponent what is left over.

Double runs should almost always be kept; chances of a quadruple or triple run are high enough to warrant keeping a double run even if you must help your opponent's crib a bit. An exception would be a hand like 5 5 10 10 9 8, when the best play is to throw the 9 8.

If you need to discard face cards, throwing a king into the opponent's crib is better than throwing a queen or jack, since it's hardest to form a run with a king

When there's a conflict between helping the opponent's crib and keeping your own hand intact, consider the score of the game. If you're ahead and it's okay if you both score big, you might take a chance on giving the opponent a big crib; but if you're behind, you want to play defensively and slow down the game, which means you should give up your own best hand to avoid helping the opponent.

source: http://www.rubl.com/rules/cribbage-strategy.html

I would kick JB's ass in a game of cribbage with relative ease.

It makes good coleslaw is all I know.

This looks like excellent advice! I will study this carefully.

Thanks very much!

I've never played with cabbage, Edgar. How do you shuffle and deal it out for play?

Reyn
I don't know if there are other strategies or not. I hope you can find those links useful and your welcome of course. Good luck playing

NOT!

Reyn, I didn't look carefully at the strategies in the link, but it really depends on whose crib you're feeding. The dealer always gets the crib. If you're the dealer then it makes sense to give yourself better cards than if the other person is the dealer. Yes, there's always a strategy. There is ONE best way to play any hand, but that takes lots of practice and coaching and you're not looking to enter cribbage tournaments, so using general rules of thumb will suffice.

Don't break up a run of three in your hand (i.e., 7-8-9, or 2-3-4). This is a cardinal rule that you don't want to break UNLESS the other three card are three of a kind, then you would want to break up the run.

Basically, you look at the six cards. Quickly look for runs of three or more, pairs, double runs of three (a run of three including a pair such as 3-3-4-5, 6-7-7-8), and combinations of cards that add up to 15 (any combination of two or more cards such as 9-6, 3-3-9, 3-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5, etc). Try to keep cards that add up to 15 in your hand and throw away what you think is crap to the crib -- particularly the other person's crib. If it's your crib, you can give yourself a pair, or two cards that add up to 15 - they count the same in your crib as they do in your hand.

Okay, this makes a lot of sense. I'll certainly keep these ideas in mind as we start to play.

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Great! I'm sure other stuff will come to mind later.