Players must not look at any card before their turn to play. These cards must be placed face down in front of each player in a stack. If there are two players deal twelve each. If there are four players, deal six cards to each player. A regular deck of 52 cards is used, with no jokers.

Four people play as partners, two against two, with partners sitting opposite each other. Cards are played to a 5 by 5 layout one player or team tries to form rows which score as highly as possible as cribbage hands, the other does the same with the columns.

Table Top Cribbage is a game based on Cribbage scoring. May you get many fifteen twos, and have lots of fun'.

I find it very interesting and entertaining, and in fact, some people that do not like to play cards will play this game. This page is based on a contribution from Bill Whitnack of Vernon, BC, Canada, who writes: 'I don't know where this type of cribbage originated, but I learned it a few years ago on the west coast (Surrey), BC, at our horseshoe clubhouse, after our horseshoe pitching was finished for the evening.

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