Each player gets six cards, then chooses and discards their worst two cards to make a 'crib', or 'box' - an extra hand of four for the dealer. Cut for deal (lowest wins), which then alternates. The two-player version is most common, so that's what we'll look at here.Īce is low. Between two and four players can play with anything from three to seven cards (go for five cards in a four-player). And as you'd expect of a game knocking on 400, many variations have evolved. This may have something to do with the fact that crib has been around since 1630. Many think of cribbage as an old man's game, and they're not far wrong.
