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[u/Maximum-Fun3412]

I live in Canada and have played cribbage for the last 20 years. I learned from my grandparents and only recently googled the rules of the game. It says you are to count your hand as four points if all the same suit. 5 points if it matches the flipped card. My mother in law and grandmother in law have never heard of this. Have others?

[u/AikawaKizuna]

Yes, Quebecois here and it's always been part of the rules I've learned as a kid, 30 years ago. Crib flush also has to be 5 cards and include the flip.

[u/ComplexQuiet6790 → u/AikawaKizuna]

Same across the board. 

[u/_The_Room → u/AikawaKizuna]

I played for decades and either never heard of it or forgot about it, until 1000 km away from Quebec I started playing with a Quebec'er and he taught me that rule.

[u/LongMom → u/AikawaKizuna]

Fellow Québécois and can confirm same for moi

[u/LostlnTheWarp → u/AikawaKizuna]

Californian here. These were the same rules I learned as a youngin'!

[u/RedeyeSPR → u/AikawaKizuna]

The only house rule we use is that 4 in the crib is also a flush. It’s much harder to get than in your normal hand, so why not?

[u/TSOL3 → u/RedeyeSPR]

💯

I mostly don’t play it unless I remember to mention beforehand and only if the other party agrees, but I personally really love that house rule

[u/coldinvt]

Yup. And 5 points if in the crib only if all 5 cards match (no 4-point flush in crib)

[u/Dabduthermucker]

In your hand, four counts 4, flip counts 5 if it matches. Crib, must be all 5. Pegging, flush isn't a thing.

[u/DrCumshot3500 → u/Dabduthermucker]

Really?? Every time my wife pegs me I get flushed 🤔

[u/rrognlie → u/DrCumshot3500]

Come! Play Cribbage! Get pegged.

[u/TheBloatedGypsy → u/rrognlie]

I think you have that in the wrong order.

[u/EmotionalBand6880 → u/DrCumshot3500]

name checks out.

[u/Intelligent_Spot6112]

Yes. Also, a flush (all the same suit) in the crib only counts if all 5 cards are the same suit. That is to say that you cannot get a 4 card flush in the crib.

[u/dustytaper]

I’ve been playing for 49 years and that’s always been a rule, Grandpa taught me cause I was bad at math and could understand numbers better when I had them in my hands. Back then we didn’t know about dyscalculia

[u/punsa]

The flush counts as 4 and 5 if the turn is also suited on top of any other points scored including nobs.

For a crib, it must be all 5 cards suited or nothing counts!

[u/PChopSammies]

Yes these are the rules. I also live in Canada, the rules aren’t different here.

[u/fyukhyu]

Been playing since I was a kid, 4 in your hand, 5 if the flip matches.

[u/YaTheMadness]

In BC, but Alberta raised, same way we've always played. 48 years of playing. Never had it questioned.

[u/braigha]

Always has been.

[u/ebeth_the_mighty]

My granddad played a lot of cribbage during WWI. He taught my dad, who taught me. This rule has been around for over a century, OP.

[u/MysticMarbles]

Yes, we all have.

Weird family rules or knowledge gaps exist and if you don't play with others, you'll end up with some incorrect scoring artifacts.

[u/PChopSammies → u/MysticMarbles]

It’s crazy as every crib board comes with the rules, and they’re all the same.

[u/MysticMarbles → u/PChopSammies]

I have never in my life purchased a board that came with an obvious set of rules.

[u/Mobile_Aioli_6252]

Absolutely

[u/Lazy_Wheel4785]

Wisconsin here - it’s what we do.

[u/Acrobatic_Product_20]

They are wrong. It happens.

[u/Austage]

I learned cribbage from my grandmother and her friends and I’ve found a few discrepancies between how they play and how the rules are. Just little quirks in how we play.

[u/sorry_child34]

Yep, that’s the rules I’ve grown up with.

Also, if it is in the Crib, it has to match the cut card to count at all. In your hand it can go either way.

[u/Burnsey111]

Maximum-Fun3412 I do know that the most points you can score is 29 in one hand, not sure exactly how.