Wookie2486
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What's on the bench 2022
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Well that’s one for his knob right there……What a horrible "fate" for those poor Cribbage boards..........been a player since I was 11 years old. I hope they are dual purpose and not just relegated to the role of painted bits holder!
Thought the Jack turned was His Nobs. I'll peg two.
Two for turning him up and one “for his knobs” for having him in your hand when you peg it I thought…..been playing since I was about six, but haven’t played for years now……never scored 29, but have scored 19 countless times LOL.
Just like you to do the "impossible", Tim
Took your two for turning it up & misspelling his name. The uncle who taught me the game & the guys at work I played with 40 yrs ago used "big boy rules" where if you lost count or miscounted or was slow in pegging you forfeited the pegs/points to your opponent.
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Called Muggins, I believe. Usually if you overcount you lose them, and if you undercount the opponents that spots it gets the extras…..
Could that explain the old English phrase of ,"Don't be s Muggins"..
... as in Dolt ?!!
... as in Dolt ?!!
May well be right Andy. After a little digging I’ve found that it’s used as a similar game term in a few other games, dominos, for example. Also, Cribbage was apparently started in the early 1600s and Muggins as a derogatory term enters the language from the mid 1800s.
Amazing what I learn or find out after coming on here
Amazing what I learn or find out after coming on here
Same here except we kept it friendly and just jeered at the player who was a little slow or miscounted........always played 4-way singles, never partners.
Grew up in an area of vicious card players where pinochle, euchre, and even canasta were high stakes blood sport.
Only played two or three as singles (I had a three handed board), or pairs. Never four way singles….played five or six card though, and pub league for one season….back in the day when pubs had teams for everything (crib, darts, dominos, Poole, bar billiards, and bar football to name some of the indoor games) and results were reported in the local papers.Same here except we kept it friendly and just jeered at the player who was a little slow or miscounted........always played 4-way singles, never partners.
Didn't mention Hearts as I still have bad dreams about it. 
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.Airborne01
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When I lived in Oxfordshire we had a pub game called 'Aunt Sally' - involved cleanly knocking a (ten)pin (called a 'Dolly) from a small circular disc mounted on a spike about four foot high; this was achieved by throwing wooden staves at the dolly - it didn't count if you knocked it off by hitting the spike! Sounds easy - it wasn't!
Steve
Steve
Try Hearts in Atlantis Paul….great book, probs for the same reason…..
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