cribbage vs cards

cribbage and cards both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cribbage	Yes	No	No	No
cards	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cards is a hypernym of cribbage; that is, cards is a word with a broader meaning than cribbage:

cribbage: a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
cards: a game played with playing cards

Other hypernyms of cribbage include card game.

cribbage (noun)	cards (noun)
a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two	a game played with playing cards