9♣ Printable PDF score sheet
Cribbage
Your board already keeps score inside a game. This keeps score across a session, and settles the counting that causes every disputed point.
Customize and buy Add your group's name, pick a color, download straight away.
What you get
- Match record Fourteen games for up to six players, with a skunk box and a session tally.
- Counting reference Every scoring combination in the hand, the crib and the play, with the ones people miss called out.
- Five colors Jade, navy, burgundy, slate and blush, all in the one download.
- Your group's name Optional, printed in the header and footer of every sheet.
- Large print option Bigger type on the sheets you write on, for easier reading at the table. Same price.
2 sheets · US Letter landscape, 11 × 8.5 in · vector PDF, sharp at any size · prints in color or grayscale
Why a match record, not a scorecard
Cribbage is scored on a board with pegs. A paper scorecard fights the game rather than helping it.
What paper is good for is the layer above: who won which game across an evening, a league night or a season, and by how much.
That is what this sheet does, with a column per player and a row per game.
Counting is where the points go missing
Every distinct combination that adds to fifteen scores two, and people routinely count only the obvious one.
A double run of three is eight, not six. A flush in the crib needs all five cards including the starter, while a flush in hand needs only four.
The jack of the starter's suit is one point, and a jack turned as the starter gives the dealer two.
Skunks
A loser who never got past 91 has been skunked, and many groups count that as two games rather than one. Under 61 is a double skunk.
The sheet has a box for recording which your group does, since it changes the standings.
Large print
Check the large print box when you customize and the scoring grid comes out with noticeably bigger type and taller rows, which most people find easier to read across a table.
The grid is what grows. Reference panels and the fine print stay at their normal size, so nothing gets squeezed off the page, and the sheet still holds a sensible number of rounds.
Questions
- How many players?
- Up to six columns, so it covers two-player games, three-handed and partnership play.
- Does it replace the board?
- No. Use your board for the game and this for the session.
- What size does it print?
- US Letter, landscape.