Editing Cribbage (section)

===Deal===
The players [[cut (cards)|cut]] for first deal, and the person who cuts the lowest card deals. The dealer [[shuffle]]s and deals five or six cards to each player, depending on the number of players. For two players, each is dealt six cards; for three or four players, each is dealt five cards. In the case of three players, a single card is dealt face down in the centre of the table to start the crib. Once the cards have been dealt, each player chooses four cards to retain, then discards the other one or two face-down to form the "crib" (also called the box), which will be used later by the dealer.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Parlett
 | first = David
 | author-link = David Parlett
 | title = The Penguin Book of Card Games
 | date = October 1987
 | publisher = Treasure Press
 | isbn = 1-85051-221-3
 | url-access = registration
 | url = https://archive.org/details/penguinbookofcar0000parl
 }}</ref>

At this point, each player's hand and the crib will contain exactly four cards. The player on the dealer's left or, in a two-player game, the [[pone (card player)|pone]], cuts the remaining pack. The dealer reveals the top card of the lower half, called the "starter card" or "cut", and places it face up on top of the reunited pack.<ref name="CTR">{{cite web
|url= https://www.cribbage.org/NewSite/rules/rulebook_2020.pdf
|title= Cribbage Tournament Rules
|access-date= 2021-11-02
|date= 2020
|publisher= The American Cribbage Congress
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200923000843/https://www.cribbage.org/NewSite/rules/rulebook_2020.pdf
|archive-date= 2020-09-23
|url-status= live
}}</ref> If this card is a [[jack (playing card)|jack]], the dealer scores two points for "his heels" or "his nibs".