Players can “knock” instead of draw a card and give each other player one more draw. The object is to obtain a hand with a value total as close as possible to 31. An oak tree takes twenty or thirty years to reach maturity, making cribbage truly a game of patience.Įlena taught us this at Camp and we had so much fun playing it while drinking a lot of rosé in the lodge that now the rules are a little foggy.īlitz (aka Snip Snap Snoop, Big Tonka, Nickel Nock, Clinker, Scat, Cadillac, Juble, or 31) Mahogany is the most popular wood, then pine, walnut, and maple, followed closely by oak. If you don’t have a board, you will need a woodshop to make a cribbage board, you might even need to find a small copse of trees to get the wood to make your cribbage board. Simple.Īnother lovely two-person card game. Players keep playing until someone wins the whole deck. If the cards are the same then the players each put out three cards face down and then flip up another card. One player plays a card face up, their opponent plays a card face up, the high card wins and the winner takes both cards.
