Playing Cribbage online with other people, step by step: the code, the seats, the table rules, and what happens when somebody drops out.
Cribbage here is the two-handed game. One of you opens the table, which needs a free account, and sends the six-character code or the link from "Copy link". The other chooses a name and sits down as a guest, with nothing to install.
The host chooses the length of the game: 121 points, twice round the board, or 61 for a shorter one. The game starts when both of you are seated.
Every point is counted by the site, for both players: fifteens, pairs, runs and go in the play, and the full show afterwards. Nobody has to peg, nobody can miscount, and there is no arguing over a missed fifteen. The table shows each player's score and what they pegged this hand.
Each of you sees only your own six cards when they are dealt. The crib stays hidden until it is counted at the end of the hand, when it goes to the dealer.
Both players throw two cards to the crib at the same time, and the table tells you whether you are throwing into your own crib or your opponent's. Then the starter is cut, and the play goes back and forth with the running count on the table; when you cannot lay a card without passing 31, you say go.
After the play, the hands are counted: the non-dealer first, then the dealer, then the crib. That order matters at the end of a game, because whoever reaches the target first wins on the spot.
The counts stay on the table so you can both read them, and the next hand is dealt when both of you have pressed "Ready for the next hand". The deal alternates between you.
There is no chat at the table, so if you like to call your fifteens out loud, play on a call.
If a page closes or a connection drops, the seat is held for twenty-five seconds. After that the site plays the missing hand until its player returns, and opening the table again gives the seat back. Pressing Leave mid-game hands the seat to a bot for good.
A table nobody plays at for six hours is cleared away.