Gyroscope report Cribbage Club at the Bernal Heights Library How to playWhen & whereRulesMore One deal of cribbage, step by step, then a drill on counting hands. Tap Next or swipe the table. DealPlayShow ← BackReplayNext → You 0Opponent 0 Count a hand Show the countNew hand → Fifteen 2 eachPair 2Run 1 a cardFlush 4, or 5 with the starterNobs 1 Face cards count 10 and an ace 1. One card can be part of several fifteens. In the crib, a flush scores only when all five cards share a suit. From a flyer posted on Moultrie St, up the street from the Bernal Heights library, photographed Wed 28 Oct 2026. What Details Day Saturday 7 November 2026 Time 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Venue Bernal Heights Branch Library Address 500 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110 Cost None stated RSVP Kevin: k6knapp@gmail.com, 206-619-0943 All are welcome. The session opens with an introduction on how to play, followed by tips and tricks and then open play. Bring a board and cards if you have them. The flyer says it is "not a Library sponsored program", so it won't be on the library's calendar: RSVP to Kevin. The flyer lists only this one date. Map: OpenStreetMap · Google Maps From 222 Moultrie St: about 300 m, a 4-minute walk straight down Moultrie St to Cortland Ave. The library is at the corner. (Measured from the US Census geocoder's point for 222 Moultrie St to the library's outline on OpenStreetMap: 275 m in a straight line, about 305 m along the streets. Minutes are at 80 m a minute.) Cribbage in five lines Board and pegs. You keep score by leapfrogging two pegs along a track on the board; the first to 121 wins. Deal and crib. Each player gets six cards and throws two face down into the crib, a bonus hand for the dealer. A card cut from the deck is turned up as the starter; if it's a jack, the dealer scores 2. The play, to 31. Players take turns laying cards face up and calling the running total, never going past 31. Making 15 or 31 scores 2, a pair 2 (three of a kind 6), a run 1 a card, and the last card ("go") 1. Then the count starts again. The show. Each hand is counted together with the starter: the non-dealer first, then the dealer's hand, then the crib. Fifteens score 2 each (face cards are 10, ace 1), pairs 2, runs 1 a card, a flush 4 (5 if the starter matches; the crib needs all five), and nobs, the jack of the starter's suit, 1. To 121. The deal alternates, and the non-dealer counts first, which often decides a close game. Versus bridge: mostly two players, with no partners, no bidding, no trumps and no tricks. You score card combinations as you go and keep the score on the board. Try it on the flyer's fan of cards, A♣ 5♦ J♣ Q♥ K♠: the 5 with each face card makes three fifteens (6), and J‑Q‑K is a run (3), for 9. Add 1 for nobs if the A♣ is the starter. The drill under How to play opens on this hand. Learn it before you go At the session: it starts with an introduction on how to play. Rules of cribbage on Wikipedia: free, and follows the American Cribbage Congress rules for two, three or four players. The American Cribbage Congress rulebook (2020 edition, PDF): the official rules, written for tournaments. Other cribbage near SF The nearest American Cribbage Congress clubs that turned up are in the East Bay. Check a club's page for its current days before going. Fremont (club #43): Wednesdays, check-in 5:45 PM, nine games round-robin at Stanley's Sports Bar, Sharks Ice Fremont. Club site Castro Valley (club #337): social, for all ages and levels; the season runs September to May, with nine-game sessions of about 2½–3 hours. ACC page
