Today we played 7 card cribbage and tackled challenging hand scores. It’s quiz time! First, we got to have some rules which are here.
For convenience, the rules are copied below from Masters Traditional Games web site:
“Seven card cribbage
Only experienced players play this game – it can get quite complicated. Play is to 181 points or three times around the board. Deal seven cards to each player and one to the crib. Then each player discards two into the crib so that each hand and the crib all consist of 5 cards.
Play is the same as for standard cribbage except that a flush can consist of 4, 5 or 6 cards for 1 point each card. However, you can only score a 4 or 5 card flush if all the cards in the flush are in the hand.
The highest score under seven card cribbage is 46 which can only be scored when the six cards, including the turned up card, are 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4. This is a total of 6 for 3 pairs, 16 for 8 fifteens and 24 for 8 runs.”
We didn’t have flushes. We scored them and did pretty well. I missed one of the fifteens on hand B. We checked our results, so we know the right answers.
Hand A: 44556K
Hand B: 333456
For this to work as a quiz, it’s more fun if you comment. I’ll post the answers this coming Monday.
We’re getting two new cribbage boards. They’re shipping from Michaud Toys in Canada. One of them is a new giant board similar to the one we got in 2020 but fancier. We’re also getting a Cribbage Rumble board which is basically the same as a Cribbage Wars board but shaped more like the narrower giant cribbage board rather than a big square. Otherwise, the hazards and bonus zones are the same but are sort of stretched to fit on the board.
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