Free Cribbage Games to Play

Play at Yahoo Games

• Yahoo Games offers a free, multiplayer cribbage game. If you are looking to play against other opponents online, Yahoo Cribbage is a great place to start. Yahoo provides game rooms, tournaments and a cribbage ladder that shows the community's highest-ranked players.

  Yahoo Cribbage also allows you to find and join cribbage leagues. Overall, Yahoo Cribbage is an appropriate choice for the more social player to find a long-term cribbage community.

  To play Yahoo Cribbage, go to Yahoo Games at http://games.yahoo.com/. From the main page, search for "cribbage." Click on the top entry. When the next page has loaded, click on "Cribbage Home." This will bring you to the main Cribbage page. From here, you can click on "Play Now."

  Start a new game by clicking on "Create a Table." You can specify the number of players in the game, the points goal and a few other parameters. If you click on "Play Now", Yahoo will pair you with another player waiting for a game or will place you in a room with the option to play against a robot if there are no other players waiting for an opponent.

Free Cribbage Games at Download.com

• As of September 2009, Download.com contains 15 free or free-to-try Cribbage games. The CNET staff has reviewed one of these games, Cribbage 2008.71208, which received a four out of five star rating. This particular game provides a 30-day free-trial period. Most of the free-to-try cribbage games have the advantage of allowing for both offline and online play.

  With Cribbage 2.0.6.1, you can play against the computer or against human players. The other four free games--Quick Cribbage, 100% Free Cribbage Board Game for Windows 7.16, CribSol 8 and Quick Cribbage for Windows 2.0.1--pit you against the computer. These games might be of interest to a beginning cribbage player or a cribbage player with limited Internet access.

ECribbage.com and Cribbage Corner

• If you'd rather play and not download, try eCribbage.com. eCribbage.com's games require Java. You will be prompted to download Java if you do not have it currently installed. eCribbage.com has much in common with Yahoo Games in that a large community exists around the game, but eCribbage.com focuses entirely on cribbage and its variants.

  At eCribbage.com, you have access to tournaments and online game play against other human opponents. The site also features different variations of cribbage to play.

  Another site, Cribbage Corner, recommends a variety of free cribbage games for Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile devices. The site reviews a number of these games and exists as a resource for cribbage players.