English Card Game: Cribbage

Feb 16 Tue 6:30 PM
Location

19304 Detroit Rd
Rocky River, OH 44116
(440) 356-6933

Estimated attendance
 5  people attended.

Who organized?
Gary Brunger

Price

$1.00 per person
refund policy

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Cribbage is a card game traditionally for two players, but commonly played with three, four or more, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. Cribbage has several distinctive features: the Cribbage board used for scorekeeping, the eponymous crib (a separate hand counting for the dealer), two distinct scoring stages (the play and the show) and a unique scoring system including points for groups of cards that total fifteen.

According to John Aubrey, Cribbage was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, as a derivation of the game "Noddy". While Noddy has disappeared, Cribbage has survived, virtually unchanged, as one of the most popular games in the English-speaking world. The objective of the game is to be the first player to score a target number of points, typically 61 or 121. Points are scored for card combinations that add up to fifteen, and for pairs, triples, quadruples, runs and flushes.

Cribbage holds a special place among American submariners, serving as an "official" pastime. The wardroom of the oldest submarine in the fleet carries RADM Dick O'Kane's personal Cribbage board onboard, and upon decommissioning it is transferred to the next oldest boat.



Join us to play, or to learn, this classic game, in a fitting English Pub setting. We will try to play 2 to a game (the best way), so if anyone has a board, please bring it. I have all the cards we will need!

Also, The Pub is a great place to have your dinner, and on Tuesdays their burgers are half-price, so feel free to arrive early and indulge. We will be sitting in the same section as usual! If this is your first time playing cribbage with us, just ask to be seated with The Cleveland Card Game Players.

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