OK, now you're speaking my native tongue. Sad (?) thing is, I'll probably be at a Wisconsin lake cabin getting trounced by my dad at cribbage that weekend.
FUCK YEAH! I WILL DOUBLE RUN AND PEG YOUR ASS UNTIL THE COWS COME HOME!!!!
Wait...after reading that line a non-cribbage player could read that as me inviting Savage over for a kink session while the wife is out. I'm not married.
Not that I would play, mind you. But I can see all sorts of amusement potential out of a day putting pegs into holes while heady brew, sausages, and nuts are consumed. The amusement potential is pretty high already.
You need a voting option for those who would attend to watch the...er... peggings.
I've played a fair few hands of cribbage in my time. Say the words "fifteen two and the rest won't do" and I'll hear my dad's voice. I echo @4's request for the availability of brown spirits.
@9, I've played a great deal of Mille Bornes as well. Oh Hell is my favorite, though. Or Mexican Train, if anyone's up for dominoes. Slog Games Night!
might want to see if zayda buddy's in ballard would sponsor it - they have a number of leinenkugel's available, and are very into the wisconsin heritage stuff.
Singles or doubles? As far as I know, I am the only member of my (very large) extended family who has a championship t-shirt commemorating my dominance in both singles and doubles cribbage at the annual family reunion.
Add my vote to boozing it up while pegging. And don't forget his knobs.
I have to do this! I have cribbage partners on both coasts, and have a weekly game. Please make this happen!
Please make it early August - I am moving away right after that. :(
As it is it will take 9 rounds to accomodate the current 172 players who've indicated they would enter. At an average of 35-45 minutes per match (?) (winner of 2 out of 3 games wins the match), you're looking at 5-7 hours of non-stop pegging.
Elm, we're thinking of starting at noon -- but the last eight players square off at 8 PM. So folks can come, play, take off if they're eliminated, then come back in the evening to watch the last three rounds. Seems doable if we keep the number of players limited to 200, right?
Fuck. If onion and I are around, I'd do it. But only if there's no stinkhole. Stupidest rule ever.
And how do you people count runs while pegging? Max run is 3? or 4? I met people who said if you managed to get seven straight (Like: 5-2-7-6-4-3-8) you suddenly got seven points. Bullshit, if you ask me.
I ♥ cribbage, and would do my best to come into town to "visit my brother-in-law" (i.e., peg all y'all assess all over the place). Though, 2 weekends in August this year I'll be at Glacier NP, so odds are not in favor of me being free.
@13 I totally learned to play at my family's camp in Maine.
@27, you sounded knowledgeable until you said "his knobs". Are you some kind of Midwestern degenerate? Where I come from, it's "his NIBS". This is serious business I'm talking about -- almost as serious as "ketchup" (correct, as all decent people know) vs. "catsup" (who are you, the queen of England?)
@43, you were toast as soon as you typed "face ard".
OMG I would totally enter this! I will never forget when I beat my uncle when I was 14 (totally by luck, but I'll take what I can get). He still refuses to play against me.
Shit, Fnarf, good thing I was doing laundry, 'cause I was going to have to throw down, but @51 took care of it for me in a totally civilized way. Phew.
@57, I'll bet if you wait a round or two, there will be enough washouts willing to play some pinochle with you.
I was raised on cribbage and am now thinking back to my aunt Sherry cursing vividly at small children during the annual Boxing Day Cribbage Tournament on Moyie Lake.
[Cribbage is most properly played in Brittish Columbian lake cabins, for all of you who seem otherwise deluded.]
While PEGGING. I realize now of course that my example goes over 31, which couldn't work, but say it was a mix of cards that happened to be 1-6, even if they were way out of order?
Let's just say I've seen some people bust out some stupid rules in crib. I just read up on the stinkhole rule, and the bastard who pulled it on me said you HAD to get a go or nobs to win, when the rule is usually that you can't use a go or nobs to win.
muggins muggins muggins muggins muggins muggins muggins
It'll be so much fun just o say that in public and have other people understand without rolling their eyes!
Does this have anything to do with the practice of "pegging" in cribbage (which we've been enjoying immensely since the "buttfucking with a strap-on" meaning was coined in SL)? This might even be worth a trip out to Seattletown if the schedule works out...
@49: According to the Cribbage(dot)org glossary, nobs and nibs are two different things, though we always call the jack nobs here in Milwaukee, irrespective of whether it's flipped or in the hand/crib.
I love love love cribbage and would totally do this. My grandma taught me to play when I was young and I have loved it ever since. Pro-tip: the Lookout has a cribbage board you can play whilst boozin
If I lived in WA I'd so be there... but alas, i'm already in WI and will probably be playing cribbage in my local tavern that weekend... hahaha! One of my favorite games, ever.
In addition to myself, I know at least a half-dozen local cribbage lovers who would love to do something like this.
If I may make one request, please have it hosted somewhere where I can drink bourbon while I play. Bonus points if it's a church.
Wait...after reading that line a non-cribbage player could read that as me inviting Savage over for a kink session while the wife is out. I'm not married.
Also? Anyone out there play Mille Bornes?
Cool idea.
You need a voting option for those who would attend to watch the...er... peggings.
@9, I've played a great deal of Mille Bornes as well. Oh Hell is my favorite, though. Or Mexican Train, if anyone's up for dominoes. Slog Games Night!
Cribbage (like Mille Bornes-yesyes) is meant to be played in a drafty cabin - wherever in town is most like one, that should be the spot.
I second Fnarf's suggestion @14 for a Slog Game Night.
I love cribbage and would totally enter if I lived in the area!
The one thing I know about cribbage is that it is best played quasi-sober.
Add my vote to boozing it up while pegging. And don't forget his knobs.
We want to keep it simple... and singles, single-elimination seems simplest. You want to advise us?
Please make it early August - I am moving away right after that. :(
And how do you people count runs while pegging? Max run is 3? or 4? I met people who said if you managed to get seven straight (Like: 5-2-7-6-4-3-8) you suddenly got seven points. Bullshit, if you ask me.
@13 I totally learned to play at my family's camp in Maine.
@43, you were toast as soon as you typed "face ard".
And for those wishing they played, it's very easy. A minute to learn, a lifetime to master.
Nibs aka "his heels" is the point scored when cutting to a jack as the starter card.
I am so in for this tourney, btw. Have a 19 on me.
@57, I'll bet if you wait a round or two, there will be enough washouts willing to play some pinochle with you.
(15 2, 15 4)
I was raised on cribbage and am now thinking back to my aunt Sherry cursing vividly at small children during the annual Boxing Day Cribbage Tournament on Moyie Lake.
[Cribbage is most properly played in Brittish Columbian lake cabins, for all of you who seem otherwise deluded.]
While PEGGING. I realize now of course that my example goes over 31, which couldn't work, but say it was a mix of cards that happened to be 1-6, even if they were way out of order?
Let's just say I've seen some people bust out some stupid rules in crib. I just read up on the stinkhole rule, and the bastard who pulled it on me said you HAD to get a go or nobs to win, when the rule is usually that you can't use a go or nobs to win.
It'll be so much fun just o say that in public and have other people understand without rolling their eyes!
And now that y'all have had a night to think on it -
will it be singles only, or singles and doubles?
@49: According to the Cribbage(dot)org glossary, nobs and nibs are two different things, though we always call the jack nobs here in Milwaukee, irrespective of whether it's flipped or in the hand/crib.