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Monopoly, Battleship, Chess are highly structured games where the rules reflect some fantasy/reality component. You can play them pretending to be a real estate tycoon, WWII admiral, or medieval king at war, but you don’t have to. The game doesn’t change one way or another. Even Cribbage, a game of pure mathematical abstraction, uses the metaphor of a horse race to score. It could just as easily be scored on paper like Rummy. Just as Candy Land could be played on a numbered grid and ordinary Parcheesi pawns. Would anyone play it like that? Probably not; it’s the pretend element that makes it worth playing.

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Fighting cabin fever

KeepMEcurrent.com - Scarborough,ME,USA
As we began another game of cribbage, the gas lantern hissed overhead, wind blasted against the side of the shingled cabin, the old stove crackled, and ice, ...

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The perfect hand

From: North Thompson Times
Apr 09 2007

It was an April “first” for Tom Noble and his partner Gloria Petre as they sat across from each other the morning of April Fool’s. A perfect hand of cribbage lay on the table, staring up at them. Three fives and a Jack had been dealt to Petre with the starter card turned over revealing a five in the same suit as the Jack. A perfect 29 hand.

At first the pair didn’t realize what had occurred.

“I think...” said Petre.

“I’ve never...” said Noble.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Noble recalled, “I had to look at it again, and again.”

The couple get together at least two to three times a week to pit against each other in a friendly game of cribbage.

Neither has witnessed a genuine perfect hand dealt in their lifetime. “We figure we’ve got 120 years of card playing between us,” said Noble.

This was no April Fool’s trick. The highest score that can be achieved occurred during their third game of the morning. “I’ve had a 28 before,” claims Noble. It occurred during a ferry ride, “I was hooting and hollering; the whole ship could hear me!”

The tides may be turning for Petre.

“Usually I’m very lucky when I play cards with her,” said Noble. “She certainly won that game, and I got skunked to boot!”

Cribbage has been played since the early 17th century and has survived with no major changes as one of the most popular games enjoyed by the English-speaking world.

The odds of getting a 28 hand in a two-player game are one in 15,028.

There is a significant difference in achieving a perfect 29 hand in a two-player game. Odds are one in 216,580.

The odds triple if playing with three or four players (one in 649,740).


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Cribblog wrap-up and kethup...

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E - So this is how you play cribbage? V - Isn't it a great game? B - As long as I am winning it is the Best!
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the Champion
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Next thing you know I'll start playing fantasy cribbage or something like that. Anyway, I'm remiss as a blogger because I haven't said anything about my 2.5 day pilrimage to Ann Arbor March 27-29. What can I say, I didn't want to lug ...
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North Thompson Star - Barriere,British Columbia,Canada A member of Branch 114 of the Legion, in Lynn Valley, Vancouver, Brongeest tells that he started playing Cribbage at the tender age of seven. ...
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Tax Everybody
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They were likely fed three square meals a day, and played cribbage and cricket while Prime Minister Blair blew his hot air, Bush threatened sanctions, and Ahmadinejad waited for just the right moment to take the pulpit and declare in ...
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The whole game lasted around an hour which is probably another record for us. As ever, out came the cards to finish off, with a few rounds of Cribbage and a close-fought one of our Whist variant.
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Lost Cities - First game with my wife
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We once tracked Cribbage games for a YEAR, so I could see this game gently rolling along to rounds 4, 5, 23, 87, 109, etc. When we have to break out the exponents we'll probably retire. Or if the kids eat it--whichever comes first. ...
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Turtles in Kelowna
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Finally he agreed to learning how to play cribbage because there was nothing else to do. So at one in the morning we played a game, then finally called it a night. Late night on top of a long day of work but both were filled with ...
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Then we got ice cream and played Cribbage. I spent Friday eating Qdoba then playing airsoft with Rob and friends. All in all it has been a very boring break and I am looking forward to going to San Francisco.
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I’m staying with a friend who I contacted over the Net, and have been doing very little more than watching TV and boning up on Cribbage. There were snow flurries today. I called my mother back to wish her Happy Easter. ...
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Brr!
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We ended up building a fire and playing Wii and cribbage in front of it to keep warm. Then we piled the blankets on our bed, turned on a tiny space heater and went to sleep. In the morning, our room was toasty warm and the rest of the ...
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By The Awsum Blog
After being repeatedly pummeled in Cribbage and King's Court, I suggested we play Jenga. I'm pretty sure "jenga" is Amish for "pile of sticks," but I could be wrong. I ended up winning, and coming up with an even better passtime: Use ...
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Perfect Cribbage Hand
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Friday April 6, 2007 I achieved Cribbage perfection. I got a 29 on the second game against my wife. I’ve been playing this game for about 25 years and we play ten to twenty games a week on average and this is the first time I’ve ever ...
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Post Birthday Report
By Clinton
Pretty light. Went out with the team at work for lunch, and grilled dinner with Calvin (he had burgers). Then we watched TV and I taught him how to play cribbage. Kay was out of town, so we'll have our celebration this weekend.
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Cribbage keeps your brain young...

By KELLY BOTHUM, The News Journal

The average adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds. When compared with our jiggly abs, thighs and arms, it's usually not the first body part we think of to exercise.

But that's exactly what we should be doing, say a growing number of researchers and health professionals who study brain health. These experts believe that by exercising our mind daily, we can slow the development of age-related memory problems and even more serious conditions such as dementia.

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And here are some tips:

KEEPING YOUR MEMORY SHARP
• Learn a hobby. Don't use getting older as an excuse for not trying a new activity. It's good for your brain to take on new challenges, said Lynn Grattan, director of the Neuropsychological Diagnostic and Research Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in Baltimore.

• Keep a list or calendar of your activities. This helps you stay organized, allowing your brain to work more efficiently.

• Put important items in the same place each time you use them. This includes your keys and other often lost items.

• Play games. Puzzles, word games and brain teasers are good ways to keep your mind engaged.

• Exercise. Studies show people who keep active have fewer memory problems than those who don't.

• Meet new people. Conversations with different people can recharge your mental batteries and give you something to think about.

• Think positively. Grattan said it helps the brain to function more efficiently. Honest.