Chuck Zumbrun

Tales from Skunk Hill

The Great Cribbage Challenge of 2014

It’s on!  Our 3rd annual winter-long challenge has started.  Year 1 was backgammon, year 2 Boggle, and now in year 3, cribbage.

Cribbage Board
Cribbage Board

I played cribbage when I was kid, but I remember nothing about it except it had a board with pegs.

Despite many sites on line claiming it’s the easiest of games to learn and that a game can be played in 15 minutes, it took Debbie and I an hour to play a practice game. If you know anything about cribbage, you can realize by the peg placement in the picture we had little idea what we were doing.

And at the end, neither of us was sure what had happened.  It went like this:

Chuck: “My peg’s at the end.  Did I win?”

Debbie: “I don’t know.  I guess you did.”

Chuck: “Or do we finish this hand?”

Debbie: “I don’t know.”

It might be a long winter…

3 responses to “The Great Cribbage Challenge of 2014”

  1. Missy Avatar
    Missy

    I’m gonna love watching this unfold.

  2. anne Avatar
    anne

    I do remember that you have to use 2 pegs to move around the board, the one behind moves in front (like leap frog) so it is easy to see points for each hand. Surely you have According to Hoyle and have learned the game was invented by Sir John Suckling in the early 1600s and the first one to the end does indeed win that hand regardless of how many more points you may hold in your hand.
    Looks like plenty of cold weather coming your way, you’ll get a good start on the winter competition season.

  3. Lola Avatar

    Dad and I used to play cribbage all the time and then I taught our sons. Ted has a new client that wants him to build a bench with a cribbage board in the middle so he can sit and play with his grandson. Sending many combinations of 15 your way.

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