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
Sir John Suckling holding the open First Folio
Fragmenta Aurea, 1646
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.
John Suckling (poet)
…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 for his poem "Ballade upon a Wedding". Suckling was born at Whitton, in the parish of Twickenham, Middlesex, and baptized there on…
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