Cribbage Square Instructions

Cribbage Square is a solo game where you try to make the best ten cribbage hands that you can by arranging cards into a 4x4 grid with an extra starter card. There are a number of variations on the Cribbage Square games with one featuring a 4x4 grid with no start card and a 5x5 grid. This game is an HTML5 port of the game originally developed in Blazing Games Guide to Flash Game Development volume 1 eBook and is being released in my Making HTML5 Games Using Animate CC eBook which is being slowly posted on my development blog.

Playing the Game

Playing the game is very easy. You simply look at the card that has been dealt and decide which empty slot to place the card into. Clicking on the card slot places the card there. The hard part is in scoring the hands. While the computer will handle the scoring for you, knowing how the scoring works will help you better place the cards. In fact, this game is really good for practicing your counting.

A hand consists of four cards plus the start card. Points are earned as follows:

• Four Card Flush is when the four cards (not including the start card) are of the same suit. This earns 4 points.
• Five Card Flush is when all the cards, including the start card, are of the same suit. This earns 5 points.
• Nob is when you have a Jack in your hand that is the same suit as the suit of the start card. It earns 1 point.
• Runs are sequences of three or more cards (poker refers to them as straights). They are scored the length of the run (3, 4 or 5) but it is possible to have overlapping runs, (3,3,4,5,5 for instance would be 4 separate runs of three for 12 points).
• Pairs are two cards with the same face value and earn 2 points.
• Tripples three of a kind translates into 3 separate pairs so earns 6 points.
• Quadruples four of a kind translates into 6 separate pairs so earns 12 points.
• Fifteens any unique combination of cards that add up to 15 earns 2 points.