If the hand contains three of a kind, this is called a pair royal and scores 6 points (as there are three combinations of pairs: AB, AC, BC). (No points are scored for a flush of four cards that comprises three in the hand with the turned up card being the same suit).Įvery pair of cards scores 2 points. If the turned up card is also the same suit, the flush scores 5 points.

If all four cards in the players hand are the same suit, this is a called a flush and scores 4 points.

Here are the (interesting) rules for scoring a set of cards in Cribbage. A player has four cards in his/her hand, and there is a common card, which is “turned up” to make five. If you are not familiar with the game of Cribbage, this article might not make a lot of sense, but the basic premise of the scoring is based on groupings in sets of five cards. The scoring happens in rounds, and various combinations/patterns of played cards are given different scores. I’ll not duplicate the rules here, but sufficient to say they are a little different from traditional trick and trump based games. It probably dates back to 17th Century England. Left hand - 12 points (discard the six of Clubs):Ĩ points from '15's: 9H-4S-2S (2), 9H-4S-2C (2), 9H-4D-2S (2), 9H-4D-2C (2) andĤ points from two pairs: 2S-2C (2), 4S-4D (2).Cribbage is an interesting (and old) card game. If you counted correctly, then you found that the left/right partnership won the hand with a total of 19 points (12 for the left hand, seven for the right), while their top/bottom opponents only scored 16 points (12 for the top hand, four for the bottom).

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