About Cribbage
A cribbage board in your browser
Two players, a working peg board, and the long walk to 121. Throw two cards to the crib, cut a starter, peg to 31, then count what you are holding: fifteens, pairs, runs, the flush, and his nobs, with the crib itself going to the dealer. The board here is a proper board with two tracks and pegs that move, rather than a running total parked in the corner of the screen. Nothing gets installed and no account is required to sit down at it.
Scoring tools and reference pages
Four pages sit behind the game, and the game keeps them honest:
- Cribbage RulesThe full round: deal, crib discard, pegging, and the show.
- Cribbage Scoring ChartA printable chart of every score — fifteens, pairs, runs, and nobs.
- Cribbage StrategyDiscard choices, pegging tactics, and counting habits.
- Cribbage Hand ScorerPick any four cards plus a starter for an itemized count.
Why it plays the way it does
Cribbage is a counting game before it is anything else. Plenty of online versions do all the counting silently on your behalf, which removes the one skill actually worth practising. The board here shows both sets of pegs so the gap you are trying to close stays in front of you, and the hand scorer is a separate tool precisely so you can check your own count after the fact instead of being handed the answer mid-hand. The scoring chart is built to print, because a fair number of people want it lying beside a wooden board rather than glowing on a phone. Counts run all the way up to the perfect 29, which almost nobody will ever be dealt but which the scorer recognises regardless.
Who keeps cribbage.to running
cribbage.to is kept running by Card Games Studio, an independent studio of no great size that also looks after upwards of twenty further free games on their own domains. Stating that out loud beats leaving you to infer it from the links between them, and the full roster is published on the studio page. Cribbage players count faster than just about anyone and will not let a miscount pass unremarked, which happens to be exactly the sort of audit this site benefits from. If the scorer misses points in a hand, or pegging awards something it should not have, send the hand along to hello@coffeebreak.gg.