First Time Playing Cribbage
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Thanks PT. My sons a software engineer. I'll try to corral him. I'm thinking a Pat's cheesesteak though.
For those with limited math skills you can play by matching colors with the 8 last.
Thanks for posting the link...I should've Googled it before I asked! LOL.
Can't wait to get back to the table to play the game again as a practice drill. I can really see how it can improve your overall game.
This doesn't look right (from the wikipedia). It says if you fail to make a cribbage, it is a foul (no penalty of points, but ball spots up). However, then if further states 3 successive fouls is a loss of game. By that logic, if a player fails to make a cribbage in 3 successive innings, he loses the game. Is that right? If not, does anyone know how to fix a mistake in wikipedia.
Wikipedia text:
Rules of play[edit]
A cribbage only counts when the paired balls are pocketed in succession in the same inning. Where a player pockets a first paired ball and is thus on a cribbage, if the companion ball is not pocketed on the next stroke, the shot is a foul and the unpaired balls of any cribbages not completed are spotted to the foot spot. If the foot spot is occupied, balls are spotted as close as possible to the foot spot on the long string stretching back from the foot spot to the foot rail.[1][2][3]
The penalty for all fouls is the ending of the player's inning; no points are lost, and the incoming player has the option of shooting from position or taking cue ball in hand from the kitchen (behind the table's head string). In older rules a foul was a loss of one point. Three successive fouls in cribbage is a loss of game. Pocketing the 15 ball when it is not the last ball on the table is not a foul. Instead it is immediately spotted and play continues without penalty.[1][2][5][6]
Wikipedia text:
Rules of play[edit]
A cribbage only counts when the paired balls are pocketed in succession in the same inning. Where a player pockets a first paired ball and is thus on a cribbage, if the companion ball is not pocketed on the next stroke, the shot is a foul and the unpaired balls of any cribbages not completed are spotted to the foot spot. If the foot spot is occupied, balls are spotted as close as possible to the foot spot on the long string stretching back from the foot spot to the foot rail.[1][2][3]
The penalty for all fouls is the ending of the player's inning; no points are lost, and the incoming player has the option of shooting from position or taking cue ball in hand from the kitchen (behind the table's head string). In older rules a foul was a loss of one point. Three successive fouls in cribbage is a loss of game. Pocketing the 15 ball when it is not the last ball on the table is not a foul. Instead it is immediately spotted and play continues without penalty.[1][2][5][6]
Sounds right to me. If you pot the 6 ball and fail to pot the 9 ball, the 6 gets spotted. We didn't play it as a foul though. The incoming player played the table as it laid so to speak.
I also love the game but don't have anyone to play, i do happen to like the fact that it's a game that can be played along and as a result plan on adding it to my routine this time around.
This was the fist place i saw any rules on it
http://www.poolchat.net/forums/index.php?/topic/7424-cribbage-rules-update/
This was the fist place i saw any rules on it
http://www.poolchat.net/forums/index.php?/topic/7424-cribbage-rules-update/
No Stanley from me. Cribbage is fun. Keeps the shooter on their toes. Good game.
Cheese steaks? Pudges on 202 rules the world.
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oh I like this, made this awhile back
balls don't have to be pocketed any order up to 7 can be used for pegging straights, dbls, 15's, if your total is 31 you only get to peg one notch, if the 31 rule is effect.
can only peg if crib ball is pocketed, player up to shoot draws a crib number that crib ball must be pocketed in its round/inning.
balls don't have to be pocketed any order up to 7 can be used for pegging straights, dbls, 15's, if your total is 31 you only get to peg one notch, if the 31 rule is effect.
can only peg if crib ball is pocketed, player up to shoot draws a crib number that crib ball must be pocketed in its round/inning.
The 15 is the last ball on the table. You can use the 15 as in your scenario but it must remain on the table. If the 15 is sunk then it is spotted just as any other illegally potted ball is. there are probably a variety of local variations of this game just as there is in every other game.
I think there is no rule in cribbage about which ball must be struck first. Combinations, caroms, billiards, kisses, are all fine.
Think you are right Bob. You can also play safeties off of any ball as long as you do ball/rail as usual.