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Description
Cribbage has been around since the 1600s. Poet Sir John Suckling of England first popularized it and described the rules of cribbage in roughly their modern form. Cribbage (originally spelt "cribbidge" - not "cribage" ) is a fairly straightforward development of an earlier game called Noddy, Suckling's main contribution being the 'crib' that gives the modern game its name. It was originally played with five cards rather than six, as is now the standard, but the play and strategy are almost identical and the five-card game still survives, especially in the UK. The so-called cribbage board predates Cribbage by many hundreds of years and has been used for scoring many other games, especially pub games. However in the last few centuries the traditional board has been indelibly associated with Cribbage, and customized boards like the '29' have been developed especially for it.
