The same approach we use on checking your hands on our servers and gaming program. In general the best approach is to count your 15's, then pairs, then runs, then Nobs, then finally flushes. One For His Nob: If the hand contains the jack of the same suit as the start card, you peg One for his nob. Note also that there is no score for flush during the play - it only counts in the show. There is no score for having 3 hand cards and the start all the same suit. If the start card is the same suit as well, the flush is worth 5 points. Flush: If all four cards of the hand are the same suit, 4 points are scored for flush. The runs of 3 within it don't count - you just get 4), and a run of five cards scores 5. A run of four cards, such as 9-10-J-Q scores 4 points (this is slightly illogical - you might expect it to score 6 because it contains two runs of 3, but it doesn't. A hand such as 6-7-7-8 contains two runs of 3 (as well as two fifteens and a pair) and so would score 12 altogether.

Run: Three cards of consecutive rank (irrespective of suit), such as ace-2-3, score 3 points for a run. Four of a kind contain 6 pairs and so score 12 points.

Three cards of the same rank contain 3 different pairs and thus score a total of 6 points for pair royal. Pair: A pair of cards of the same rank score 2 points. This combination would be marked as fifteen: 8. For example king, jack, five, five would count 8 points (four fifteens as the king and the jack can each be paired with either five). Let's recall cribbage scoring, rules and the the combinations that give points: 15: Any combination of cards adding up to 15 pips scores 2 points. In explanation below we use card notation of all our card games, 'Suit Value', DJ means Jack of Diamonds, S0 means 10 of Spades etc.

Of course, in online cribbage it is done already. To simplify calculation, order your cribbage hand left to right from low cards to high. Muggins is when a person misses points and the other person takes them. Moreover, you can select the 'Manual' option or play non-online cribbage with Muggins variation. Though in online cribbage you don't need to score manually the counting your cribbage hand correctly is a very important part of the game of Cribbage.

Cribbage scoring