A few questions about cribbage?

Cribbage can be played with any kind of board and 2 or 3 tracks, because the board is nothing more but a way to keep score.

The way to win is to be the first to score 121 points. So a traditional two track board, with two sets of parallel tracks, is 30 holes up and 30 holes back, and you go around twice. The three track boards are usually in an ess-shape, but still have 120 holes plus a space to peg out.

Have fun! I love playing cribbage, wish I had someone to play it with regularly.

So what you do to play three-handed on a two-track board is that two of you just go up and down one side of one of the tracks. The other person goes up and down and around the other side normally. My siblings and I play that way whenever we play three-handed.

@zenvelo You are on. I love cribbage and my husband does not play.

I adore cribbage. I learned to play while vacationing in Thailand one year, and I was hooked. You can play it on a continuous board with just 2 people even though there are 3 tracks. Ignore the unused track.

Let’s have a tournament. I want to play, too.

Absolutely. Just use two lanes.
Here are some other things that hopefully help you: All board I’ve seen also have a smaller trail on the bottom with only 7 pegs. That’s for for keeping score of how many times each person passes 120. Advance a peg there when someone passes 120. Move it two places if someone passes 120 and skunks their opponent (that means you pass 120 before your opponent passes 90). Remember that points are counted automatically. That is, if your friend’s the dealer, he lays down the points in his hand after you. So if both of you are close to passing 120 when it’s time to show the points in your hand, you’ll get there first.

With a 3-track board, two people can play by ignoring one of the tracks.

With a 2-track board, three people can play by one person going in the reverse direction, as @marinelife suggests.

Four people can play on either a 2-track board or a 3-track board by playing in teams. Members of a team sit across from each other, and hands are scored in clockwise direction (teams don’t score at the same time).

The kind of board you describe learning on was continuous. Non-continuous boards can be confusing, but I think you can’t go far wrong if you discuss how to score with your opponent before starting. You can think of the non-continuous board as just a continuous board with a physical distance between the end of one section and the beginning of another. If you want the game to be longer, you can run one segment more than once.

I’m used to this board. Whenever we had a third player, we just used different color pegs.

@Hawaii_Jake and @marinelife, we really should start a cribbage club. Not that I’m a brilliant player and I’m out of practice. You can play on yahoo games I think.

@jerv , that is funny. I have never seen one like that.
I want a board in the 29 shape.

@Here2_4 I’m partial to the 29 board, myself. For those not in the know, 29 is the highest one can score in a single cribbage hand.

Thanks for all the tips; this is very helpful. I’ll practice a bit and check back in about this budding Fluther cribbage group…