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11 Card Cribbage Now!
Hey, it’s New Year’s Eve and it’s time for 11-card cribbage! Recall, the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) website has a cribbage variations page in which the unknown author reports there being many cribbage variants, including 11 and 13 card cribbage. So, yesterday we played 12-card cribbage and we decided to address the 11-card variant today.…
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Twelve Card Cribbage on the Tournament Board!
As promised, we played a game of 12-card cribbage on the tournament board today. What an adventure! We both missed pairs in counting high scores on one round (that we noticed after viewing the video)—but we got through it. I don’t know of anyone else who’s made a video of this wacky variant, but let…
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Anyone for 12-Card Cribbage?
You know the winter is getting long when Sena and I talk about trying to play 12-card cribbage. We’ve come up with a way to manage the deal and the crib and we’ll try to play it tomorrow. Sena’s been bugging me for a while now to try playing both 11-card and 12-card cribbage—despite the…
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Mindfulness in 10 Card Cribbage? Yes and No!
So, as long as we had the cribbage tournament board out, we decided to play 10 card cribbage yesterday. This is not a game for mindfulness, at least for me. Each player gets 10 cards. You have to sort them into two 4 card hands and the dealer gets the usual 4 card crib. That’s…
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The Missing 29 Cribbage Board and a Little History
We’ve been searching around for our 29 Cribbage Board. It’s in the shape of 29 which is the highest score you can get in cribbage. The hand is typically shown with three 5’s and the nob Jack and the cut card is the other 5. This is usually a diamond 5, but the heart or…
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How About Traditional Cribbage?
We’ve been playing Calvinball cribbage so much lately, we thought it would be nice to play a game of standard 6-card cribbage on a tournament board we’ve had for several years. It seemed to go faster than it really did. We finished the game in 26 minutes but we’ve been able to play faster than…
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Merry Wicked Cribbage Christmas!
We hope you all had as nice a Christmas as we did. We played Wicked Cribbage! It’s an overlay variation of 6-card cribbage. This turned out to be more fun than we every imagined. Short story—I got skunked! We made a video of the hilarity. Happy holidays! And here’s a great Christmas card from Sena!
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Our House Rules for Crib Wars
Based on what I found out from Artificial Intelligence (AI) yesterday, I thought I’d share our house rules for Crib Wars. The only reason I’m including information from AI is because I couldn’t find specifics on how to manage pegging for the Blue Penalty Box anywhere else. If you already know how to play basic…
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A Conversation with AI about Backward Pegging in Crib Wars and Wicked Cribbage
I thought it might be interesting to see what AI has to say about backward pegging in Crib Wars and Wicked Cribbage. We haven’t found a set of Crib Wars that are specific on the 20-hole backward pegging because they don’t specify which peg you move back 20 holes. According to AI it’s the front…
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The Big Crib War Hybrid with 10 Card Cribbage!
Well, we did manage to get through a hybrid of 10-card Cribbage and Crib Wars although I had a kerfuffle with pegging which led to extra points I shouldn’t have got. I probably made other mistakes (just let me know). However, it probably didn’t make that much difference. As luck would have it (as it…
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