This just in; we found a Crib Wars game on Amazon for only $20! I’ll have a lot more to say about Crib Wars/Cribbage Wars tomorrow.
We’ve been thinking about taking this game out for a spin for a while.
Sena also ordered something called Wicked Cribbage. I don’t know anything about it except it’s a deck of special cards which gives you a chance to cheat during a regular cribbage game. It’s yet another Calvinball cribbage item similar in nature to games like Crib Wars.
This reminds me of another variant we used to have: Chicago Cribbage. We don’t have it anymore, but it’s pretty complicated and the rules are on the web. In fact, I just found out that our demonstration of it is posted on BoardGameGeek. It also comes with a special card deck which has cards that allow you to essentially penalize your opponent.
Another Calvinball crib variant we messed around with was Zombie Cribbage about 3 years ago. It comes with a rickety 61-hole folding plastic board that often got stuck closed and the pegs were plastic zombie figurines!
One of the Zombie Cribbage variants involved using jokers although the rules for using them was tough to figure out. There were two female and two male zombies. One of the guys had a big hole in his chest and was missing an arm, which is actually normal for zombies. The cards are decorated with zombies.
We also considered trying to invent a mashup of Zombie and Chicago cribbage that we could call Chicago Zombie Cribbage. If you played your reverse counting card, you could tell your opponent, “Walk like a zombie, only backwards!” That never got off the ground, or should I say out of the grave?
Our zombie cribbage game YouTube video is at the top of a google search, but only because there are no similar videos made, apparently! There are plenty of mistakes in it, but it didn’t really matter. It got over 300 views. We don’t have the game anymore.
And the other news is even more absorbing. I’m not sure how it happened, but a squirrel got in the house and took a few bites from my pumpkin spice cake. And it brought a cribbage board, but forgot a deck of cards!
And another thing! We just found out that the Michaud Toys company has again today replaced the message (missing in the last couple of days) that U.S. orders are subject to a 35% tariff and a 25% UPS brokerage fee paid before delivery!
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