Category: cribbage

  • Zulwarn’s 15 Tips for Playing Cribbage

    Zulwarn’s 15 Tips for Playing Cribbage

    Here’s a great video by Zulwarn: 15 tips to help you be a better Cribbage player. I try to remember most of them.

  • Learning to Use ClipChamp While Recording Cribbage Game on Cribbage Pro

    Learning to Use ClipChamp While Recording Cribbage Game on Cribbage Pro

    I’m learning how to use the video editor ClipChamp, the free version on the new laptop. So, I muddled through a screen recording of playing what’s called the Daily Cribbage Scrimmage on Cribbage Pro, a feature-rich computer Cribbage game on which you can different skill levels of computer players from easy to impossible as well…

  • Great Cribbage Tutorial for Beginners!

    Great Cribbage Tutorial for Beginners!

    I’ve seen a couple of Cribbage videos on Huddle Around Games, which is a YouTube site dedicated to Cribbage as well as other games. This one is a tutorial on how to play Cribbage for beginners. He calls himself Zulwarn, which is his name when he plays the online form of a computer Cribbage game…

  • Is Cribbage Mostly Luck?

    Is Cribbage Mostly Luck?

    I found this cribbage YouTube site that does a really nice job of teaching you how to play Cribbage. Here’s a video about whether Cribbage is mainly a game of luck or skill. It turns out it’s a mix of both. I play computer Cribbage games with high level computer opponents who-let’s face it, don’t…

  • The Mumbo Jumbo on Some Big Antique Cribbage Boards

    The Mumbo Jumbo on Some Big Antique Cribbage Boards

    Today, I’m going on a tangent about big, mostly antique cribbage boards which were specially made for making the scoring more complex. The main perpetrator (I mean manufacturer), was Drueke (variously pronounced as Drooky, Drew, Drooka). The Drueke name turns up on most of the big two, three and four track vintage cribbage boards you…

  • Cribbage for Four Players

    Cribbage for Four Players

    Here’s the other cribbage version and it’s for 4 players. You play as teams. You can find these and more games on this website.

  • Cribbage for Three Players

    Cribbage for Three Players

    Hey, I found a great website for learning how to play cribbage with more than two players. In fact, you can learn how to play all kinds of games. If you already know how to play two-hander cribbage, you can learn the other common variations. Here’s the YouTube on the 3 player version.

  • Thoughts on Down Time Activities for Land Survey Technicians

    Thoughts on Down Time Activities for Land Survey Technicians

    I was just thinking about the old-time land survey crews. When I was getting on the job training as a survey technician, the typical land survey crews were at least 2-3 persons. One rodman, one instrument man, and a crew chief who organized the job, which could be property or construction jobs. Nowadays, you get…

  • This is National Scrabble Day

    This is National Scrabble Day

    I almost forgot that April 13 is National Scrabble Day. I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about it before, so I’ll inflict some thoughts on you now about it and add some others about International Cribbage Day, which is on February 10 annually—and which I evidently tend to forget every year. The big news about…

  • Cribbage Pro Computer Game Demo on Brutal Level!

    Cribbage Pro Computer Game Demo on Brutal Level!

    Sena and I enjoy cribbage. I sometimes practice using computer games. You might remember my video about Cribbage Classic last year. The other day I did a demonstration of gameplay on another game called Cribbage Pro. The developer is Fuller Systems, Inc. It has 3 levels of difficulty: Standard (which you might call easy); Challenging;…