What Are the Streets on a Cribbage Board?
The streets are the four 30-hole quarters of a cribbage board's 120-hole scoring track: First Street covers holes 1 to 30, Second Street 31 to 60, Third Street 61 to 90, and Fourth Street 91 to 120. Players use them as shorthand for how far along the game each side has traveled.
Where does each street start and end?
A standard cribbage board lays its 120 scoring holes out in rows of 30, and each street is one of those 30-hole stretches. The names run in playing order, so a peg travels First, Second, Third, and Fourth Street on its way up the track. The game goes to the first player to reach 121 points, which makes Fourth Street the home stretch: its last hole sits one short of victory.
| Street | Holes |
|---|---|
| First Street | 1–30 |
| Second Street | 31–60 |
| Third Street | 61–90 |
| Fourth Street | 91–120 |
What marks the boundaries between the streets?
On a traditional board the streets end where the rows do, so the peg turns at holes 30, 60, and 90 before starting up the next street. Many players informally call those turns the corners, though no rule authority defines the term and nothing is scored for rounding one.
The boundary between holes 90 and 91, where Fourth Street begins, is known at the table as the skunk line. A loser who finishes on Third Street, at 61 to 90 points, has been skunked, commonly counted as a double win. A loser who never even reaches Third Street has been double skunked, with steeper stakes still. Fourth Street itself ends at the stinkhole, hole 120, one hole short of the game hole that wins the game.
How do the streets help you judge position?
The streets double as pace markers. DeLynn Colvert's Twenty-Six Theory puts the average score per deal at 16.2 points for the dealer, counting hand, crib, and pegging together, against 10.2 for the non-dealer. Because each street is a fixed 30-hole span, crossing into a new one gives you a natural checkpoint. Compare your position at the boundary with those averages, and you can judge whether you are running ahead of or behind an average game's pace. The streets themselves are only reference points, the mile markers of a cribbage game.
By the Nobs Cribbage team Last reviewed 2026-08-02