cribbage
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cribbage
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A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
(RQ:Thomson Widows and Widowers)
1918, Mansfield|Katherine Mansfield, ''Prelude'', Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114
- How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.
1919, Firbank|Ronald Firbank, ''Valmouth'', Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31
- "No one remembers cribbage now," (..)
A variety of billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.
A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.