Talk:Cribbage (statistics)
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"If a player holds a 5 in his hand, he is guaranteed at least two points."
Can someone explain this to me? I can't really figure out how... 72.83.147.28 (talk) 20:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- If you have a five, and you want to score less than two, you can't have a ten (two for fifteen), another five (two for a pair) or indeed any other pair. You can't have a six and a four (six, five and four score two for fifteen and three for a run), you can't have a seven and a three, you can't have a eight and a two and you can't have a nine and an ace. So for a hand of four and a starter card, you have to have the five plus an extra four cards, so you need one of six and four, one of seven and three, one of eight and two and one of nine and ace. This gives sixteen possibilities. However, in each of these cases you can make fifteen from at least one combination of the cards:
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Cards Fifteen 
