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the only card game where you keep score by stabbing a board with tiny pegs
means A card game for two (or more) players in which you score points by forming combinations like fifteens, pairs, and runs, tracking your progress by moving pegs along a holed board to reach a target score.
from The game is widely credited to the 17th-century English poet Sir John Suckling, who is said to have invented it by tweaking an older game called 'noddy.' The name comes from the 'crib' — an extra hand of cards set aside that the dealer gets to score — and 'crib' itself traces back to the sense of a small container or hoard (think of a crib for grain or a baby's cot), from Old English 'cribb,' a manger or stall.
- inventor
- poet Sir John Suckling, 1600s England
- the skunk
- lose by 30+ points and suffer doubled defeat
- perfect hand
- a 29 is statistically near-mythical
- pegging
- the board predates the written scorecard entirely
- navy ritual
- a sub crew owns the oldest cribbage board
world cribbage championship — annual tournament held inticas weirs, england since 1971 with international competitors
cribbage board pegging — the 121-point wooden board with holes used in official play to track scores