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	You	Opponent
Total score:	107 128
Pegging:	107 128
Hands:	107 128
Cribs:	107 128

Choose a difficulty level:

Cards are dealt randomly for all difficulty levels.

Click here to learn how difficulties work

Computer Difficulty Levels Explained

For all three difficulty levels the cards are dealt completely at random to both you and to the computer. The difference between the easy, standard and pro levels is the strategy used to choose the computer's discards and pegging plays. If you are finding that your computer opponent is beating you, you will likely benefit from understanding how the computer chooses its next move.

Easy Computer Strategy

Discarding:	Chooses a random pair of cards.
Pegging:	Chooses a random valid card.

Standard Computer Strategy

Discarding:	Chooses the pair of cards that will result in the best hand score ignoring the possible flip card. If the discards are a pair or sum to 15, it adjusts the analyzed hand value by 2 (plus or minus depending on the crib owner.) Notice that this strategy does not account for flushes or possible runs that could result from the flip card.
Pegging:	Chooses the next card that will result in the highest score for itself. If all plays are of equal value then it chooses at random.

Pro Computer Strategy

Discarding:	Evaluates the score for each pair of discards for all possible flip cards still left in the deck. Then takes the play that averages the highest outcome. For the cards in the crib, evaluates their value as well with each possible flip card and adds or subtracts depending on who will count the crib. Note that the potential from the two additional crib cards are not included in the crib analysis.
Pegging:	Chooses the next card that will result in the highest score for itself. It also prefers not to leave the pegging count at 5 or 21. If all plays are of equal value then it chooses at random.

Settings

Manually count scores:
Muggins:
Hint button on all levels:
Warn of suboptimal plays:
Fast counting:

Board Background:

Card Color:

Statistics

	Easy	Standard	Pro	Total
Games Played				0
Wins				0
Losses				0
Skunk Wins				0
Win Percentage
Avg Pegging Score				0
Avg Hand Score				0
Avg Crib Score				0

Tutorial

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Cribbage is a simple two person card game.

The game involves scoring points by playing and grouping cards into pairs, runs, and combinations of cards that sum to fifteen.

To use this tutorial, click on the arrows on the side of this panel.

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The winner of a game is the first person to score 121 points.

We keep track of the score using pegs. Your peg is blue and the computer is red.

Each time you score points, your back peg will move ahead of your front peg. There are 120 peg holes for each player so the first to get to the end of the path wins.

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Cribbage is played in rounds and each round consists of four stages:

Discarding into the crib
Pegging
Counting points in hand
Counting points in the crib

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Discarding

At the beginning of the round, each player is dealt six cards and must choose two cards to discard into the crib.

To discard, click on two cards or drag them to the center of the board. Then click on the button that appears to confirm your discards. The crib cards are then put aside to be counted later

Strategy: Keep in your hand cards that are pairs, runs, and groups that sum to 15. All face cards are worth 10 and aces are worth 1.

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Pegging

Starting with whomever is not the dealer, each player lays one card face up in the center of the board. The cumulative sum of the cards is tracked and play continues until neither player can play without putting the sum over 31. At that point the cumulative sum is reset to zero and the same process is continued until both players have played all four of their cards.

During pegging points are awarded for:

Cumulative sum of 15	2 points
Cumulative sum of 31	2 points
Last card below 31	1 point
Run of N Cards	N points
Pair	2 points
3 of a kind	6 points
4 of a kind	12 points

To get credit for a run the most recent played cards do not need to be played in order. For example, if the last cards played were 2, 4, 3 then the person who played the 3 would get 3 points for a run.

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Counting Hands

Starting with whoever is not the dealer, each player counts the points that can be made using the cards in their hand and the one shared card that was flipped over on the top of the deck.

When counting, points are awarded for:

Set of cards sum to 15	2 points
Run of N Cards	N points
Pair	2 points
3 of a kind	6 points
4 of a kind	12 points
Flush (not including top card)	4 points
Flush (including top card)	5 points
Jack of top suit (Nobs)	1 point

By default, the game will count your hand for you. However, you can change the settings to count manually. Counting is done by clicking on each subset of cards that form points and then clicking on the submit button that appears. Once all points have been counted tap the 'Finished Counting' button to move on. If 'Muggins' is enabled, the computer player will get credit for any points that you miss.

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Counting the Crib

After both players have counted the points in their hand, the dealer is given the crib cards (which were discarded at the start of the round.) The points in the crib are counted using the same rules as for counting cards in hand.*

When counting, points are awarded for:

Set of cards sum to 15	2 points
Run of N Cards	N points
Pair	2 points
3 of a kind	6 points
4 of a kind	12 points
Flush (including top card)	5 points
Jack of top suit (Nobs)	1 point

*The only difference between hand scoring and crib scoring is that in order to get a flush in the crib, the top card on the deck must also match the suit of the flush.

Suboptimal Play History

When you are playing cribbage you will sometimes play suboptimal crib discards or suboptimal pegging cards. This graph shows your cummulative suboptimal error count in average points for each game over time.

After you finish your first game your history will appear here.

Discard Analyzer

Select 6 cards to analyze the optimal discard:

Your Crib

Hand Cards:

All Plays

By analyzing all possible flipped top cards we can find the min, max, and average amount of points that each set of discards will yield. Click on any row to see a more in depth analysis.

Discard Analysis

Your hand

Your crib

+2 pts

+

(Scroll to see the score for each possible flip card.)

= 8 points

0

10

24

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