Sometimes, you have cards that demand an impossible decision.

Cribbage hand with 344455
Dealer's hand is 344455. What do you put in the crib?

I'm dealing. I've got a 344455 hand.

There's any number of ways of keeping 8 points. I could keep either a 3445 or a 3455.

A 5 in the crib -- when it's my crib -- isn't a bad thing. But. It seems better to keep the 5's together. The possibility of 10-point card as the starter is a $\frac{4}{13} = 30.8\%$ possibility.

I decide to drop a pair of 4's into my crib. The outcome?

starter card 3
Starter card was a 3.

Two 15's and a double-double-run. 20 points. Plus a few points in the crib. Well above par.


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