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Mashup of 7 Card Cribbage and Cribbage Wars with 46 Point Hand for Sena!
I just had to get this post out this morning after a 3-hour game of Crib Wars playing 7-card cribbage because Sena won with the highest hand point total of 46! Some say this is analogous to getting a 29 hand in 6-card cribbage. See below for details on the rules, about which opinions differ…
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Sena Wins Our First Crib Wars Game Today!
Hey, we played our first Crib Wars game today and, wouldn’t you know it, Sena won! We played six card cribbage. We ignored Muggers Alley. I spent a fair amount of time in two of the Blue Time Traps. She got caught in a couple of cycles around the last Blue Time Trap, but scored…
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Crib Wars and Wicked Cribbage: Calvinball Cribbage Alley!
We just got two new cribbage games: Crib Wars and Wicked Cribbage. We’ve been looking over the rules for both. We haven’t played either yet. I’ll talk about Crib Wars here. Crib Wars is the most challenging to tackle, mainly because the rules and the board are open to interpretation. Crib Wars came with a…
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More BoardGameGeek and Even AI Links to Our Chicago Cribbage Game Antics
I just discovered that I owe a big thanks to a guy called EndersGame who has posted both our YouTube videos about Chicago Cribbage on BoardGameGeek. Moreover, AI gives a direct link to my blog about Chicago Zombie Cribbage—which was not a demo about it but a joke about combining Chicago Cribbage and Zombie Cribbage…
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More Calvinball Cribbage Games
This just in; we found a Crib Wars game on Amazon for only $20! I’ll have a lot more to say about Crib Wars/Cribbage Wars tomorrow. We’ve been thinking about taking this game out for a spin for a while. Sena also ordered something called Wicked Cribbage. I don’t know anything about it except it’s…
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Where is the Hideout of the Calvinball Cribbage Crowd?
Today we went back to playing standard 6-card cribbage and it was a relief! After all of the Calvinball cribbage variations we’ve been muddling through, getting back to a standard game felt great. I thought of a name for an imaginary group that comes up with all of the cribbage variations (whether they exist or…
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Bigfoot and UFOs May be More Than Lore But 11 Card Cribbage is Out the Door!
Today, Sena “suggested” that we try make up our own version of the 11-card cribbage rumor. Recall that I picked up the idea from the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) web site that two of the many variations of cribbage are the 11 and 13 card games. I had e-mailed the ACC on Friday (two days…
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When Tariffs and Cribbage Boards Collide
I’m going to take a chance and mention tariffs in this post because it figures importantly in our cribbage game pastime. We have several cribbage boards we’ve bought over the years and one of them is from Ontario, Canada. Michaud Toys is a company in Ontario which makes very nice wooden toys, many of them…
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Oddball Cribbage Variants Marathon Today and a Catatonic Squirrel!
All morning long today we played the oddball cribbage variants and we are wiped out! It’ll drive me to drink! Sena is to blame for this. She “suggested” we play all 4 of the new multi-card weird cribbage variants we learned just in the last few days: 7-card, 8-card, 9-card, and 10-card. What did we…
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A Few Thoughts on Calvinball Cribbage
OK, so Sena and I have been experimenting with a few cribbage variants in the last few days and I ran into this Calvinball comment on a Reddit cribbage thread about 10-card cribbage. Yes, people play that! I’m afraid to look on the web for 11-card cribbage although Sena asked about it. Briefly, 10-card cribbage…
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