Cribbage
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Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players.
Afternoon cribbage on the patio.
Scrimshaw cribbage board. Museum of Anthropology. Vancouver. 2010
A game of cribbage being played
Cribbage being played with a travel-sized scoring board
John Suckling (poet)
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Sir John Suckling was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known fo
Cribbage
…noddy scoring scheme. Cribbage has been characterized as "Britain's national card game". According to John Aubrey, it was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century as a derivation of the game "noddy". While noddy has become a historical, rarely-played game, cribbage has continued as a…
Sir John Suckling holding the open First Folio
Fragmenta Aurea, 1646