41 Cribbage

who invented the idea that all the court cards have 10 points each ? 41 Cribbage restores the "original" points assigned logically for court cards. So, Jack=11, Queen=12 and King=13 points.
This move changes also our counting during the game. 31 points stays as it is, and scores 2 points.
But the next target is ... guest what ? yes, you are right ... 41 points. But this time player scores 4 points for reaching this target. There is no play beyond count of 41.
Nice ... it messes up our traditional thinking and planning during the game. But, this is the goal of any variant, to relax, to look out of the box on what we know and do everyday.
Enjoy and keep pegging ... till 41 !

Darts Cribbage

or Precision Cribbage. Some staistics say pone earn 10 points and dealer 16 points on average in one hand. So, 13 points is an average per hand for both players. Let's play darts . There will be 18 rounds and the target score (biggest premium) for each round will be 13 points, for pone and dealer separately.

SCORING:(sum of points during the play + counting the cards)

For getting 2-8 points - MINUS ONE point (-1)

For getting 9 points - TWO points ...(2)
For getting 10 points - THREE points ...(3)
For getting 11 points - FOUR points ....(4)
For getting 12 points - FIVE points(5)

For getting 13 points - TEN points ...(13)

For getting 14 points - FIVE points (5)
For getting 15 points - FOUR points ...(4)
For getting 16 points - THREE points ...(3)
For getting 17 points - TWO point ...(2)

For getting 18 and more points - MINUS ONE  point (-6)

SORRY ! no points for "beautiful" hands ... this is Precision Cribbage, specific target oriented.
Play carefully, plan your hand, it's a different cribbage, maximazing your score do not help.
Be target oriented, score when necessary only. Manage your resources.

Keep peging (carefully).

Progressive Cribbage

Here is another attempt to play on a bigger table, this time 6x6. This game uses very well know concept from chess variants, its progressive moves. First player places ONE card anywhere on the grid, second player places TWO cards on the grid to his/her advantage. First player again places THREE cards and so on ... until the second player would place 8 cards on the remaining 8 free spots.
Sum of the numbers from 1 to 8 gives 36 which is the entire table 6x6 ...
Below is the grid with example of moves:

As you can see the first player put 1st card, the second 2nd and 3rd card and again the first player placed 4th, 5th and 6th card to his/her advantage on the board.
And players, of course , collect points either horizontally or vertically.
You can play as many rounds as you wish.
Keep pegging.

Big Foot Cribbage

we are talking about cribbage hands, but all these hands are ... 5 inches, ooops, sorry, 5 cards long ...
how about playing 7 cards hands, and name it Big Foot Cribbage instead ?
It's another version of Cross Cribb, but this time played on 7x7 board.
It's played in two rounds. In the first round, the first player has 3 chances to discard drawn card and draw another one. Players place their cards on the 7x7 grid, one collecting points horizontally, the other one vertically. Points are, of course, the sum of respected 7 cards hands.
In the second round, the second player has the chance to discard 3 cards and draw another card.
After two rounds ho has more points is the winner. Just to remind you 7x7 = 49 and puls 3 = 52 cards in the deck. Grid is below:

 

Keep pegging.

Tug of War Cribbage

here is the one to try this weekend. one of the players start at 31 point and plays ONLY pone's hand.
the other player plays ALWAYS dealer's hands. Play is to 121, of course.
Keep pegging.

Cribbomino

Another game on 10x12 board, this time using 12 pentomino shapes to collect 5 cards cribbage hands. It can be played by 2,3 and 4 players. Board consists of 9x13 cards plus 3 jokers. Unlike Queen's Cribbage tiles covered by pentomino shape do not have to create complete cirbbage hand.
Tiles are of course randomly distributed across the table. This game can also be played (and this is what I like) on 12x13 board, like Queen's Cribbage.
Below are pics of the boards:

 

 

Piggyback Cribbage

have you ever played cribbage game on one track only ? no ? so please try this crazy game.
Cribbage board has 4 corners, 31st point, 61st, 91 first and of course 121 point ... players record score on one track only, in order like in regular ciribbage ... here is the key point ... the goal is to be the first to cross 2 out of 3 corners ... say, I came first thru 31st corner so I score one win, next my opponent crosses first 61 point, and the score is 1:1 ... whoever gets thru 91 point is the winner.
Try it today,
Keep pegging.