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Author Topic: "Cribbage" Question ?? Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-04-2003 09:41 PM                     What is the very bottom section of the cribbage board used for, as seen below:  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-04-2003 11:28 PM                     When I asked people that play religiously, they said, "That's not a real cribbage board!" I think its used to keep score of how many games each person won...not sure though. Although, depending on which area of the country you go in...they all play it different or not at all. I know that cribbage is a real "easterner" game.  |  IP: Logged Nicholas Roznovsky Expert Film Handler Posts: 156 From: College Station, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-05-2003 12:14 AM                        We have always used those bottom rows to denote the number of games each player has won. Or, how many we've had to drink so far.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-05-2003 12:49 AM                       What's cribbage? Is that like checkers?  |  IP: Logged Michael Cunningham Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: Anchorage, AK Registered: Nov 1999 posted 06-05-2003 05:52 AM                     Those extra rows are indeed for keeping track of games won. If you "Skunk" your opponent (win the game before he has passed the 3/4 mark) you peg two holes on the extra row. If you "Double Skunk" him (finish before hes has gotten through 1/2 of the points) you peg three holes on that extra row. It's kind of an optional way to extend a play session beyond one game. First person to win enough games to move a peg down that extra row wins the set. - Mike  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-05-2003 10:13 AM                     Different people use them for different things. That's why they aren't marked. Sometimes they are used for keeping track of how many games each player has won. (Skunks & double skunks as mentioned above.) Sometimes, on a contiunous track, they are used for telling how many laps you've made around the board. On my favorite board (one that I made) there are only 60 holes for each player. 30 holes by 2 rows. There are two extra holes between the rows called "Out" and "In". You start with a peg in the "Out" hole. Once you've made 61 points or more you switch that peg to the "In" hole. When you get back down to the end of the board again you know you've reached the "finish line". When I play with my wife we usually only play two or three games per session. In college, when I played with other people, we used to keep track of how many games we won or lost with "Tuits". One of my OTHER favorite boards was made from a piece of elk horn. The top was shaved flat and holes were drilled in. Each player's track branched off on each side of the "Y" in the horn. I love to take that one to a coffee shop where I know there are a lot of "tree huggers". It'd draw lots of stares from people. Every once in a while, you'd get some idiot who'd come up to you and make some comment about "animal cruelty". I loved to see their faces when I told them, "Elk shed their horns every year, you doofus!"  |  IP: Logged

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