What makes 29 in cribbage

A perfect hand is 29 points, and it happens when a player holds three fives and a jack, then obtains the other five when the "cut" card is turned over. The final five must be the same suit as the jack.

Local players consulted the Internet and found that the odds of getting a perfect hand in a four-player game are 1 in nearly , According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the card game "involves forming combinations of cards over a series of hands to accumulate points.

Points are mainly scored by runs, regardless of suit; by pairs, triples and quadruples; by flushes all cards in the hand are of the same suit ; and by combinations of cards that add up to If you don't like my changes, feel free to edit or revert them. Thunderforge it definitely gets the -1 for "This question does not show any research effort" — Benjamin Cosman.

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The only hand that will score a 29 consists of all four 5s and the Jack of nobs. The scoring of this hand is nicely broken down in this Cribbage Corner post : We score the 29 hand in the same way as any other: taking 15s first, then pairs, runs, flushes and nobs. Then pairs: there are 6 different pairs of 5s, for another 12 points. That's 28 so far. There are no runs or flushes, so the Jack of nobs gives us a final point for Improve this answer.

Community Bot 1. Add a comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. There are eight different fifteens, each worth two points. The four-of-a-kind is worth another 12 points. Finally, nobs is worth one point, bringing the total to Any ten or face card other than a suited Jack will also give you an impressive 28 points. There are 76 possible hands in which that happens, so your odds are slightly higher, though still extremely slim.