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CACT and Cribbage

Siv_in_Norfolk
Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,088
edited March 2019 in General Charlton
I didn’t hear about this on here. 

Apparently the Trust had a Cribbage night at The Valley:

https://southeastlondoncribbage.webs.com/

Awesome!

Should have posted on here to reach more players.

Anybody on here involved with the event?

is Peter Gage in here?


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  • Dansk_Red
    Dansk_Red Posts: 5,743
    CACT not CAST
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,479
    Crib is the king of card games.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,675
    Ah, a new idea for pre-match at The Swan.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,148
    Currently in a hotel bar where a table of friends are playing crib. Weird
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,148
    Actually, downgraded to acquaintances
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,017
    AFKABartram said:
    Currently in a hotel bar where a table of friends are playing crib. Weird
    Player!
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,952
    AFKABartram said:
    Currently in a hotel bar where a table of friends are playing crib. Weird
    That they're playing crib or that you have friends?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,952
    I love crib, it's the best card game for two or three players, although I think bridge is a better game for four.  Sadly, I don't get to play that much since my grandparents died.
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,088
    AddicksAddict said:
    I love crib, it's the best card game for two or three players, although I think bridge is a better game for four.  Sadly, I don't get to play that much since my grandparents died.
    Agreed... possibly the best 2 player game around

    there are a few 4 player games that are on another level, though 

    sounds like it’s time you found somebody to play :smile:
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,479
    Plumstead Radical Club last Tuesday

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,479
    Siv_in_Norfolk said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    I love crib, it's the best card game for two or three players, although I think bridge is a better game for four.  Sadly, I don't get to play that much since my grandparents died.
    Agreed... possibly the best 2 player game around

    there are a few 4 player games that are on another level, though 

    sounds like it’s time you found somebody to play :smile:
    CL Crib League
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,268
    2 for his nob. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    edited March 2019
    Covered End said:
    2 for his nob. 
    & 2 for his heels .. errr 1 for his nob ?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,479
    Covered End said:
    2 for his nob. 
    You can join the beginners table
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,876
    Fairly sure there are a decent number of Charlton fans who play for the River Ale House crib team. I’m fairly sure because I’m playing this evening in a pairs match. 

    I hope to again be the youngest player in our team by a few years: 

    GF is asking what type of pipe i’d Like to go with the slippers. Have not yet persuaded her of my original choicw and could potentially Italy get banned for use of illegally performance inhibiting/improving drugs. 
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,208
    The best thing about the River Ale House's crib team is its captain's moustache: https://853london.com/2019/01/01/cribbage-how-an-old-pub-game-is-making-a-comeback-in-se-london/
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    InspectorSands said:
    The best thing about the River Ale House's crib team is its captain's moustache: https://853london.com/2019/01/01/cribbage-how-an-old-pub-game-is-making-a-comeback-in-se-london/
    hey hey clear the way .. here comes the galloping major ((:>)
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,758
    InspectorSands said:
    The best thing about the River Ale House's crib team is its captain's moustache: https://853london.com/2019/01/01/cribbage-how-an-old-pub-game-is-making-a-comeback-in-se-london/
    I raise you Harold Bishop .... I hear he takes his cribbage very seriously.



  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,479
    http://cribbageclassic.com/

    Does the scoring for you which is annoying but handy if you've never played before or not for a while.


  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,091
    Henry Irving said:
    http://cribbageclassic.com/

    Does the scoring for you which is annoying but handy if you've never played before or not for a while.


    You can switch to manual scoring in Settings page. 

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  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,792
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    InspectorSands said:
    The best thing about the River Ale House's crib team is its captain's moustache: https://853london.com/2019/01/01/cribbage-how-an-old-pub-game-is-making-a-comeback-in-se-london/
    I raise you Harold Bishop .... I hear he takes his cribbage very seriously.



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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,268
    Peter Cordwell ?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,091
    MrOneLung said:
    Henry Irving said:
    http://cribbageclassic.com/

    Does the scoring for you which is annoying but handy if you've never played before or not for a while.


    You can switch to manual scoring in Settings page. 
    I have never played cribbage before and have now played 4 games on this app.

    Really handy features for a newbie.

    Not got the hang yet of best strategies for putting into the crib apart from dont put a 5 in when the oppo gets the crib.

    Often put 2 cards in and the app suggests 3 or more better combos to put into the crib.

    Have been using the manual scoring rather than auto-scoring to help me learn to see the relevant scoring combos. I then click on hint and it shows ones I may have missed (one day I will remember one for the nob!!)

    Am enjoying the game.
  • CAFCTrust
    CAFCTrust Posts: 40
    Thanks @Siv_in_Norfolk for this! Yes, cribbage – facilitated by Peter Cordwell – is one of the many activities that has taken place as part of recent sessions at CACT's Extra Time Hub. The programme is a weekly social group for over 55s funded by the EFL Trust, Sport England & the National Lottery. Keith Peacock will be speaking at a relaunch event tomorrow at The Valley (10am-12pm): https://cact.org.uk/news/re-launch-for-cacts-extra-time-programme. Anyone welcome! Please email matt.phillips@cact.org.uk for more information.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 12,031
    CAFCTrust said:
    Thanks @Siv_in_Norfolk for this! Yes, cribbage – facilitated by Peter Cordwell – is one of the many activities that has taken place as part of recent sessions at CACT's Extra Time Hub. The programme is a weekly social group for over 55s funded by the EFL Trust, Sport England & the National Lottery. Keith Peacock will be speaking at a relaunch event tomorrow at The Valley (10am-12pm): https://cact.org.uk/news/re-launch-for-cacts-extra-time-programme. Anyone welcome! Please email matt.phillips@cact.org.uk for more information.
    Too old for you then Siv  @Siv_in_Norfolk  :)
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 12,018
    I last played crib on Sunday evening with my wife and our friends. It's a good game to play as pair v pair, certainly easier than bridge (I used to play bridge at school and uni but haven't played for over 25 years!).
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,088
    edited March 2019
    Briston_Addick said:
    I last played crib on Sunday evening with my wife and our friends. It's a good game to play as pair v pair, certainly easier than bridge (I used to play bridge at school and uni but haven't played for over 25 years!).
    We’ll have to invite you down for some crib in Norwich, then. Have put on some reasonable sized events in the last couple of years. Got 120 people at Carrow Road for Norfolk Day last year. Then there was this:

    https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-02-08/norwich-celebrates-links-to-the-inventor-of-the-card-game-cribbage-in-international-festival/

    Live cribbage from the pub on the 6.00 local news! They called me that afternoon saying they’d had a cancellation from Alfie Hewitt (local/National wheelchair tennis hero) and were looking for an alternate story to run with, lol

  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,952
    Lincsaddick said:
    Covered End said:
    2 for his nob. 
    & 2 for his heels .. errr 1 for his nob ?
    Two for nothing and one for his nob.

    Also, when playing to 31 before the show there's a lot of rhymes if you hit the 31 mark but I can only remember two of them:

    26 ... 5's a fix
    25 ... 6 alive
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,758
    AddicksAddict said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    Covered End said:
    2 for his nob. 
    & 2 for his heels .. errr 1 for his nob ?
    Two for nothing and one for his nob.

    Also, when playing to 31 before the show there's a lot of rhymes if you hit the 31 mark but I can only remember two of them:

    26 ... 5's a fix
    25 ... 6 alive
    Ingrained in my memory from Grandad's teaching over 55 years ago.

    22 ... 9'll do
    23 ... 8's aspree
    24 ... 7's the law
    25 ... 6's alive
    26 ... 5's a fix
    27 ... 4's in heaven
    28 ... 3's await
    29 ... 2's in time.

    Helped me out as a kid as I wasn't too sharp in the maths department.  Grandad (an old time docker) had me, my brother and cousins playing this game for pennies and ha'pennys before our teens.  Must've sounded like a right old den of inequities as we shouted out our scores and cheered ourselves round the board.    


  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,088
    Great stories!

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