Our Favorite Wood Cribbage Boards

It is your turn to host game night, and there is an easy way to steal the show before a single card is dealt: play cribbage on a board that is also a work of art. A wood cribbage board trades the anonymous plastic track for a real nautical chart of a place you love, drilled and ready for pegs. Here are a few of our favorites.

A quick word on the game

If you are new to it, cribbage is a two-to-four player card game that dates back to 1600s Britain and the poet Sir John Suckling. You build combinations to score points and race pegs to 121. All you need is a deck, a set of pegs, and a board. (For the full backstory, see our history of cribbage.) The board is the one piece worth splurging on, because it is the piece that stays out on the table.

Whidbey and Camano Islands

The intricate island shapes of Puget Sound make this one a stunner, all narrow channels and scattered land. If the Pacific Northwest is home, or a favorite escape, this board carries a little of that quiet water to the table.

Cape May, New Jersey

The southern tip of the Jersey Shore, rendered in birch. Cape May is all beaches and Victorian charm, and the board captures the harbor and inlets that make the sailing there so good. A natural pick for a shore family.

United Kingdom

A fitting choice, given cribbage is Britain's unofficial national card game. The full coastline of the UK makes a handsome board and a great gift for anyone with roots across the pond.

Pick the water, not just the board

The best cribbage board is the one that means something. Your home lake, the coast you vacation on, the country your family came from. It plays like a game and hangs like a map, which is the whole point.

Ready to upgrade game night? Browse the full cribbage board collection and find your water.