Cribbage...

[Guts/Batman]

anyone else play this old, old game?

[howyadoin]

Lots of serious crib players in my family (and in Atlantic Canada in general), but I never saw the appeal of it, personally.

[Nitmo]

I got a cribbage set for my 11th birthday, but never learned how to play.

[Guts/Batman]

Lots of serious crib players in my family (and in Atlantic Canada in general), but I never saw the appeal of it, personally.


Mine too.

I learned when i was 7. It's like riding a bike. Once you get it, you don't forget it.

Been thinkin about going to tournaments here. lol

[GozertheGozarian]

I think you get disowned in my family if you don't know how to play. It's a staple at family get togethers.

[Guts/Batman]

I think you get disowned in my family if you don't know how to play. It's a staple at family get togethers.


Same here...

The only way i haven't played is 5 hand cribbage.

[Royal]

Use to be all into it. Now I think I forgot how to play.

[LtMarvel]

I play, mostly against the computer.

My wife's family plays pitch (11 point). My wife and I play Spite and Malice (a two deck game).

I'm a card shark. Spades & Euchre offer little challange for me.

[Guts/Batman]

I play, mostly against the computer.

My wife's family plays pitch (11 point). My wife and I play Spite and Malice (a two deck game).

I'm a card shark. Spades & Euchre offer little challange for me.


Honestly most card games i have to learn now. I still don't know how to play Spdes or Hearts or anything and recently learned how to play Texas Hold'em (tho i have wanting to try omaha). Just cribbage.

[zilch]

Never got around to cribbidge, but it was real popular in college back in the late '70s

I grew up playing poker every Saturday night, and during the winter we'd play pinochle and canasta. Love both games dearly.

[Guts/Batman]

My big bro plays for money lol

$.10 a point/ $1 a win

Can be quite pricey to have a losing streak he says.

Did some research on the game (for the hell of it, the exact reason why i researched Japanese Pro Baseball a few years back) said the game was invented around 1650 in England by...Sir John Suckling (one of the greastest names ever)

[Slam_Bradley]

My Dad and I used to play. My Great-Aunt was a cribbage shark. Old lady was lethal. I play online now and then.

[TomGun13]

Haven't played in a while. Its a great game. It was a cheap form of entertainment back in college.

[watchinginkdry]

I do--it was the game my dad's family played. I can still hear my grandfather counting out hands . . . fifteen two, fifteen four, a pair is six plus the jack is eight . . . We don't play it much now, though, which is a shame.

[Infinity Chameleon]

I learned it when I was about twelve and I don't think I've played it since then.

[Puma]

I used to play it all the time; it and backgammon. haven't played either in years though

[Cei-U!]

I rarely play anymore but I used to love the game. My brother-in-law taught me the rudiments some twenty odd years ago. I learned to count points fast and accurate under his brutal tutelage: from the beginning we played for a penny a point. I also miss playing Risk, backgammon and Uno.

Or maybe I just miss the drunken, stoned afternoons I spent playing them. :cool:

Cei-U!
I summon the hazy nostalgia!

[Cody H]

Yep, used to play it all the time with family and a few friends, the majority of whom were also from back East. I think it really is an Eastern thing, in Canada anyways.

[BcAugust]

I love the game. No one really to play it with anymore, but I love it.

[estee]

Once I played a game with a friend who is a hardcore cribber and had a perfect hand. Of course I was barely aware of it. I only knew I had to keep the fives. Anyway I managed to win the game because of it. My friend still speaks of the game fondly...and I was pretty drunk too at the time.

[howyadoin]

Once I played a game with a friend who is a hardcore cribberHeh. I thought they called themselves "cribbies".

[Guts/Batman]

My last semester of HS me, a couple friends and a teacher were hardcore cribbage players...

2nd period - economics - Teacher didn't have us do anything one day and i happened to have my fold up cribbage board with me so we asked if we could play cribbage. He said "sure, deal me in." My friends and I were kinda shocked but that became an everyday occurance in that class.

We played 4 player cribbage (partners) a ton. When time came short we played "double points". Each hands poitn vaule was doubled.

3rd period - General Math II (real world math) - Teacher played sometimes but not usually. We played like every day. Sometimes with another person it was 3 player cribbage game.We played during class. We weren't stopped because he knew me and rusty was getting A's and we was quiet about it.

4th period - Trig/Calc - played some not often

5th period - yearbook - played 2-3 times a week.

6th period - played 3-5 days out of the week.

After all that playing Rusty figured how i played...you can see why...

Crib freak I was...

[Sanagi]

I've played it a few times. Don't really like it. Not enough strategy to it.

[Valmore]

It's like riding a bike. Once you get it, you don't forget it.

Not true. I've learned and forgotten Cribbage no less than 3 times in my life. My dad and uncles would play in Maine when we went and visited them, and I'd learn there. But then we'd go home to New Jersey and we'd be too busy with other things and I'd forget how to play.

[Guts/Batman]

Not true. I've learned and forgotten Cribbage no less than 3 times in my life. My dad and uncles would play in Maine when we went and visited them, and I'd learn there. But then we'd go home to New Jersey and we'd be too busy with other things and I'd forget how to play.


Can't really say anything...My memory has always been one of those things where very few things go forgotten so I probably would say that.

I didn't play for about a 3 year stretch but still knew almost every aspect of the game. lol