For those just starting to play cribbage or for those teaching a new player you may find the basic scoring of cribbage to be a little confusing. When I started out my grandfather scribbled notes about the basic cribbage scoring hands on a small piece of paper. I carried this in my pocket and referenced it often… until it was barely legible… and by then I didn’t need it any more.
I’ve done my best to recreate those notes here as a “cribbage scoring aid.” You can download a PDF of this cribbage cheat sheet for your own use. I’ve also added crop marks on the cribbage scoring aid to make it easy to cut out and tape to a playing card for easy reference… and hopefully help you preserve the scoring aid for a little longer than my grandfathers scribbled notes.
Download the PDF of the Cribbage Scoring Aid.
Tags: cribbage, cribbage cheat sheet, cribbage counting, cribbage scoring
Crib Notes 
July 10, 2008 at 7:01 pm |
I’ve been playing at eCribbage.com to help me improve scoring of my cribbage hands. Playing on their site, it will tell you all the combinations of points you got to get your total score. They have a great cribbage java app and there’s more and more people joining every day. It’s a really fun community. They currently have traditional cribbage, as well as Kings Cribbage and looks like they’re going to add more variations (like muggins, joker’s wild, etc) soon as well!
May 12, 2010 at 3:00 pm |
Hi Darren,
I’m happy to note that we’ve been talking with eCribbage.com and we’re currently working on a partnership where they will include CrossCribb in their offering of online cribbage related games. More to come soon.
August 17, 2012 at 1:25 pm
I’m happy to say CrossCribb is live at eCribbage.com. You can play the computer or someone else online. Very fun. Check it out!
Tony
August 16, 2012 at 8:01 pm |
There is one error on the sheet. The left side says that his nobs is the same color as the cut card and the right side says it is the same suit as the cut card. The right side is correct.
August 17, 2012 at 1:23 pm |
Thank you so much for pointing this out. I’ll try to update this cribbage cheat sheet asap.
August 8, 2016 at 6:05 pm |
OK. Finally got this updated. It’s now 2016. So… it only took me 4 years! Tony
December 13, 2019 at 12:27 pm |
Thank you, kindly for this!! I will tape the cheat sheet to a Joker card. This will be useful when I go and play with my client today who lives in an adult family home. 🙂