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9 Card Cribbage Hand 50 Pointer Today!
We’re on schedule to get our new cribbage boards delivered today! We played 9 card cribbage to 121 today and I got a 50-point hand! We both scored the complex hand, came up with 50 points, checked it with skunkeddotclub and it was correct! We played only 3 hands but the high scores led to…
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Answers to the 7 Card Cribbage Hand Score Quiz!
Today is the day of the answers to the cribbage score quiz last Friday. We were playing 7 card cribbage and got interesting hands to score. Hand A is 28: There are a dozen points worth of 15s for 2; there are 12 points worth of 3 card runs; and there are 4 points worth…
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7 Card Cribbage Hand Scoring Quiz and Update on New Cribbage Boards Shipping from Canada!
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…
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9 Card Cribbage Comedy!
Sena’s been after me for weeks to play 9 card cribbage, so because it’s St. Patrick’s Day, I gave in because we might get lucky and the game might be playable. We used a computer scorer developed by somebody who posted about 9 card cribbage (and other cribbage variants) and has a link to a…
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Michaud Toys in Canada Clears Tariffs
Remember that issue with Michaud Toys in Ontario, Canada four months ago about their charging a stiff tariff and an extra shipping charge on cribbage boards? The tariffs and extra charges were dropped. I just checked today. I’ve been looking occasionally to see whether or not they were still on. Michaud was charging a 35%…
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The 29 Cribbage Board Rematch Game is in the Books!
Well, we finally had our rematch of the 29-board cribbage game today! Sena won! We made a YouTube video of it. We used alternate brightly colored acrylic pegs that are special order. They didn’t come with the board. I won the first game back in 2020. Sena won the rematch in 2022. She’s the champ—so…
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Cribbage 29 Board Arrives!
Hey, we got our new cribbage 29 board today! We’d been playing cribbage for a good part of the day (both 8-card and 10-card) on the big board although the 29 board will have to get its workout tomorrow. It’s just like the one we had before it got lost last year in the move.…
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Cribbage 29 Board Ordered!
Well, remember that Cribbage 29 board we lost in the move that I blogged about in December? They were out of stock until a few days ago. Sena ordered one and we should be getting it pretty soon. It’s a 10-inch board. The cut card printed on it is 5 spades. So, we’ll have to…
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Confabulation in Artificial Intelligence
I saw an excellent post on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Dr. George Dawson’s post today, “The Problems With AI Are More Readily Apparent.” He mentions AI producing confabulations which are sometimes called hallucinations in AI. I distinguish hallucinations from confabulations because the former are sensory or perceptual problems while confabulations are making things up. In…
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13 Card Cribbage to Ring in the New Year 2026!
Well, we played the 13-card cribbage game today and we survived it! I got to tell you; I don’t know how anyone would invent such a hairy cribbage variant. I got so mixed-up Sena had to bail me out on counting a complicated run. We did use a special cribbage scorer that I picked up…
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