There are a number of card games from which the game of poker was derived or has been heavily influenced by. Cribbage, while it can teach you a lot of skills that help you when playing poker, is not one of them.

The game of cribbage was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, and itself was spawned as a variant of the game ‘noddy’, which would eventually slip into the archives to be replaced by the stronger branch that sprouted from its original tree. Think of cribbage as Frasier to noddy being Cheers.

The skills you can obtain by playing ‘crib’ can help you at the poker table, but how? Let’s first learn how to play the game of cribbage.

How to Play Cribbage