The cards in the crib will count for the dealer so its generally better for the dealer to play higher ranked cards to the crib and better for the non-dealer to play lower ranked cards to the crib. If cards are tied for rank (low to high: A-K), they draw again until one card is lower.

Normally for game of Cribbage, each player would cut the deck and reveal the bottom card of their deck and the player with the lower card would be dealer. Cribbage is played with a standard 52 card deck and a Cribbage board.Players score points by preventing their opponent from playing cards during the Play phase and through their different card combinations in the Counting the Hands phase.In Cribbage, the goal is to get to 121 points for a long game or 61 points for a short game.