Cribbage games you can play online
Traditional cribbage and 16 variants, all in your browser with nothing to download. Play real opponents or the computer, join a daily tournament, or pick a game below to read the rules first.
Traditional Cribbage
Classic cribbage to 121 — discard to the crib, peg to 31, and count 15s, pairs, and runs. Heads-up, 3- or 4-player, or partners.
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Kings Cribbage
Lay card-tiles to build cribbage hands across AND down — 15s, pairs, runs, and color flushes. Highest total when the tile bag empties wins.
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CrossCribb
Build five cribbage hands at once on a 5x5 grid — and wreck your opponent’s while you do it. Only the winning margin scores. First to 31.
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Canadian Doubles
Partners cribbage with a 10-card deal — two players each split ten cards: 4 to keep, 4 to their partner, 2 to the crib.
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Cribbage with Jokers
Standard cribbage with four wild jokers in the deck — a joker becomes any card you choose.
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+19 Crib
The impossible hand pays out — a hand or crib worth ZERO scores +19 instead. Everything else is standard cribbage.
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Lowball Cribbage
First to 121 LOSES. Keep the worst hand you can, feed their crib, and dodge every point.
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Back Up 10 Crib
A hand or crib that counts ZERO backs you up 10. Everything else is standard cribbage — first to 121 still wins.
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CribSight
The starter is cut BEFORE the deal — you see the cut, then you choose your discards. Everything else is standard cribbage.
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Peg Wars
Hands and cribs are NOT counted — only pegging points score. Keep the cards that peg. A short game: FIRST TO 61 WINS.
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Crazy Faces
Starts as Traditional. Every FACE card cut (J, Q, K) flips the game to Lowball — first to 121 LOSES — and the next one flips it back.
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Take That!
Discard to the crib as usual — then the kept hands change owners! You peg and count the four cards your opponent kept. First to 121 wins.
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Pick Six
Nobody is dealt a hand! See a card and keep it or throw it to your opponent — the other hand gets the next card face down. Six turns build the hands, then it's cribbage as usual. Heads-up only. First to 121 wins.
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’Round the Bases
Baseball cribbage! Each hand is an at-bat: out-score the fielder and your runners move around the diamond — then roll the dice to make it to the next base. Most runs after the last inning wins.
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Toss Fives Crib
Your fives go to the crib — no exceptions. They’re tossed for you; everything else is standard cribbage.
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Crash Cribbage
Every peg shares ONE figure-8 track — land exactly on another peg and you CRASH it. A crash past 121 wins for the crashed side!
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Manual Count Cribbage
Count for yourself — claim your own pegging, hand and crib points on the clock. Miss some and they’re gone; overclaim and you lose the excess — or peg backwards.
Rules & how to play →New to cribbage?
Start with traditional cribbage. Every other game here is built on the same counting: 2 points for each combination of cards adding to 15, 2 for a pair, 1 per card for a run of three or more, and a few extras for flushes and the Jack. Learn that once and every variant is a new twist on something you already know.
If you want to practise the counting first, the cribbage hand calculator scores any hand for you and shows where every point comes from, and the Cribbage Counter drill tests you against the clock. There are also free daily puzzles that need no account at all.