Cribbage Score Calculator
The cribbage score calculator parses standard card notation, enumerates all fifteen combinations, counts pair combinations and duplicate runs correctly, and applies different hand-versus-crib flush rules.
Cribbage Score Calculator inputs
The cribbage score calculator parses standard card notation, enumerates all fifteen combinations, counts pair combinations and duplicate runs correctly, and applies different hand-versus-crib flush rules.
Cribbage Score Calculator results
How to use the cribbage score calculator
The cribbage score calculator parses standard card notation, enumerates all fifteen combinations, counts pair combinations and duplicate runs correctly, and applies different hand-versus-crib flush rules. The sections below explain the data, assumptions and limitations so the answer can be checked rather than accepted as a generic black-box output.
Complete hand-scoring components
The cribbage score calculator treats the four kept cards and the starter as a five-card scoring set. It independently counts every subset totaling fifteen, every equal-rank pair, the longest available runs, a qualifying flush and his nobs. The component cards make the final total auditable instead of presenting one unexplained number.
Fifteens by enumeration
Card values for fifteen are ace as one, number cards at face value and ten/jack/queen/king as ten. The engine checks every nonempty subset of the five cards and awards two points whenever the values total fifteen. This handles overlapping groups correctly, including the many combinations in a 29-point hand.
Pairs and multiple runs
Every pair of cards with the same rank scores two points, so three of a kind contains three pairs and four of a kind contains six. Runs can multiply when ranks are duplicated. The cribbage score calculator identifies the longest run length available and multiplies it by the product of rank counts, avoiding the common mistake of scoring both a long run and its shorter sub-runs.
Hand flush versus crib flush
In a normal hand, four kept cards of one suit score four even when the starter differs; a matching starter makes five. In the crib, all five cards must match to score a flush. The context selector changes that rule. Nobs is one point when a kept jack matches the starter suit, regardless of whether the hand or crib is selected.
Card-entry format
Enter rank followed by suit, such as 5H, 10D, QS or AC. The parser accepts 10 or T for ten and rejects duplicates because one physical card cannot appear twice. The starter is entered separately so the visual can distinguish it. Suit letters are clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades.
What the calculator does not score
This page scores a hand after the cut; it does not model pegging sequences, heels for a starter jack, discard strategy, opponent range or match equity. Those are separate problems. Use the cribbage score calculator to verify hand arithmetic, teach component scoring and settle a count, while applying current game and tournament procedures for play.
Cribbage Score Calculator questions
Does it score the crib flush differently?
Yes. A crib flush requires all five cards to share a suit.
Can I enter 10H instead of TH?
Yes. The parser normalizes 10 to T.
Does it score pegging?
No. It calculates hand or crib scoring after the starter is known.