Just so you know, I’m aware of the difference between the 29-hand in cribbage, ghosts, UFOs and extraterrestrials, and Bigfoot and all that.
This is an update on my reblog below of my blog post from a year ago, “Thoughts on the Elusive 29 Hand Score in Cribbage.” It’s about how to verify that you got the 29 score—without a video to prove it.
There’s something ironic about our complete lack of attention to Sena’s 29 hand score during a game of cribbage wars about 2 months ago compared to the incessant attention everybody pays to the fantastical things nobody has ever verified exists in our universe.
Incredibly, we have a video of a 29 hand! On the other hand, we’ve only got a total of 37 views of our YouTube video of Sena’s 29 hand score during the cribbage wars game. As a reminder, the odds of getting that score is 1 in 216,580. It is noteworthy when somebody gets it in a 6-card cribbage game. Because it’s rare, it’s not unusual for it to be reported in the news, although it’s a lot less likely you’ll hear about it compared to the dozen or so TV shows about UFOs, Bigfoot, and ghosts.
What’s the difference? The difference is that the 29-cribbage hand score is real and you can prove it using statistics and in real life. Our four-and-a-half-minute video of Sena’s 29 hand magically appearing before our eyes without our noticing it is astonishing. We just didn’t see it in real time, which is just as amazing as people jumping and shrieking at little blobs in the sky that are more often than not mylar balloons.
We didn’t see the 29-hand score at first because the context of playing cribbage wars distracted us from the reality that it doesn’t matter whether you’re playing standard 6-card cribbage or cribbage wars. It’s still a game of 6-card cribbage. The odds of a 29 hand don’t change if that’s what you’re playing regardless of the game variant which overlays it with rules that don’t affect the basic game.
But that’s not why I don’t see Bigfoot.
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