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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.
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Annual Kickball Challenge Tonight: Psychiatry Residents vs Faculty
I almost forgot to announce the annual KickBall Challenge, which is tonight! This used to be called Matball, but is now called Kickball. It starts with pizza at 6 pm and then the barfing starts at 7 pm. Just kidding! Usually this event is marked by extreme heat and humidity, but I gather it may…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Claw Back Those Juggling Balls in The Steal!
Sena and I have been practicing the front steal trick in juggling. It’s another two-person juggling pattern that took us a couple of days to get right—sort of. We tried it at first by counting the throws (and catches), which helped us sustain the pattern. On the other hand, it was a lot more fun…
