CLASSIC GAMES
Play cribbage online with friends
Cribbage is the best two-player card game there is, and the deck and the hidden hands it needs are both here. Be aware of one honest limitation before you start: there is no pegboard model yet.
- Players
- 2 players (3 and 4 also work)
- Play time
- 20-30 minutes
- Learning curve
- Fiddly scoring, worth it
- What you need
- A browser and a free account
How to play Cribbage
The deal
Deal six cards each. Both players discard two into the crib — a fifth hand that belongs to the dealer and is scored at the end of the round. Cut the remaining deck and turn the top card up; this is the starter, and it counts toward every hand. A turned-up jack scores the dealer two immediately.
The play
Take turns laying cards face up, calling the running total. Face cards count ten, aces one. You score two for making the total exactly fifteen, two for a pair, six for three of a kind, and points for runs. Hit exactly thirty-one and score two; if neither player can go without passing thirty-one, the last to lay a card scores one and the count resets.
The show
Each hand is then scored with the starter card added: two for every combination totalling fifteen, two per pair, one per card in a run, four or five for a flush, and one for holding the jack matching the starter's suit. Non-dealer counts first, then the dealer, then the dealer's crib.
First to 121 wins. The deal alternates each round.
What DiceyTable gives you for Cribbage
DiceyTable gives you the physical game — the board, the pieces and real 3D physics — not a rules engine. Nobody's move is validated and no illegal move is blocked, so house rules and variants cost you nothing. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, it is free, and you share a link to bring people in.
- 52-card deckA full deck with real card faces, that shuffles and deals.
- Card standKeeps your six-card hand facing you.
- CounterA numeric counter, which is how you keep score without a board.
- NotecardFor writing the running total down instead.
Setup is manual: you place the board and pieces from the in-table object library, the same way you would unpack a box. Every player needs a free account — there is nothing to download on any device.
What it does not do
- There is no cribbage pegboard in the built-in library — score with the counter or the notecard until one exists. This is the biggest gap on any page here, and it is worth knowing before you invite someone.
- Nothing counts a hand for you. Cribbage scoring is the skill, so most players consider that the point.
- You and your friends enforce the rules between you, exactly as you would sitting at a real table.
Open a table and set up Cribbage
Start a table, invite your group with a link, and place the pieces from the object library. Free, in the browser, with nothing to install.
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