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There’s something about the click of a wooden peg finding its home in a hole that satisfies you. There’s also something about the click that derails most casual cribbage games into an argument. Oh, you thought you had thirteen? No, says your opponent. It was twelve. The argument never seems to be about runs and … Read more

Lay down a pinochle hand that, to the untrained eye, appears to be magic, and the table goes silent. There’s a stack of cards, and your confidence deflates a bit because you don’t know whether the other player’s laying claim to fifteen thousand points, or five hundred. But it’s that uncertainty, the fact that you … Read more

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That’s why you’re sitting there, staring down at those kings and aces as if they will magically fix your bidding woes. They don’t. That is lesson number one: How to evaluate bridge hands. So what if you’ve got 12 high card points? Normaly you’d open, right? But maybe those points is stuck in the middle … Read more

Here is my situation: My hand is unclear but not bad; I have some high cards and some short suits. Should I make game? Or will I be happy to play for a part score? One way to count your hand would be the old-fashioned way (high card points). But that doesnt always reflect shape … Read more

No wonder: The pegboard is merciless because it shows your errors in reverse order. In fact, cribbage is perhaps the only card game in which everyone can see the score at any moment. There’s no hiding if you count wrong, you have to move the pegs into place right then or never. That transparency increase … Read more

They say Cribbage is one of those games you can play with a few cards, but to me, it’s more like a high-speed game of arithmetic chess. There’s always the story being told through the arrangement of the cards and the run or pair you’re trying to make, all while keeping a mental count of … Read more