For experienced players, the Muggins rule is always in effect and adds even more suspense to the game.
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^ This.
Most other card games are better with 3-4 players than with 2. Cribbage doesn't have this dropoff. It's as good for 2 as for 3 or 4 (up to 8 techically but I rarely have played with more than 4).
I always wanted to learn one of those intense card/board games that old people play. Dominoes looks cool, but I don't know how it works. And I'm not sure what the difference is between cribbage and bridge, they've always seemed interchangeable in books and TV shows.
dominoes is really easy actually, at least the variant I've played (and to the best of my memory): you get a hand of dominoes and you can play one end onto the board touching an unpaired matching number, or (doubles only) across a number matching the two halves of the double (i.e. a 5/5 touching an unpaired 5). if you don't have a number that matches, you pass. in the variant I've played, the first person who runs out of dominoes wins; other variants have scoring.
cribbage is kind of like yahtzee or gin rummy if you've ever played either of those.
and bridge is sui generis; as I understand it it's a trick-taking game like hearts, played 2v2: except the game part of it isn't the trick-taking -- it's negotiating, wordlessly, with your partner across the table, about how many tricks you think you can take. it's extremely fascinating and also very daunting to learn so I've never actually played it.
Oh that sounds intense. Like something a Ferengi would play.
two of my uncles tried to teach me and my cousin after thanksgiving one year. this was before computers were everywhere and the internet wasn't super helpful (they were trying to teach from memory but didn't remember Large Portions), so we kind of all ended up staring at each other. 15 years later I still do not know how to play Bridge (but I love Euchre)
OH GOOD somebody else calls it His Nibs! That's how my grandpa taught it to me, and yet if I look up the rules I usually find something that claims it's called "His Knobs". Which is absolutely not okay
yeah the rules I'm relearning off of say His Nobs, and the online cribbage we're playing calls it His Knees
Cribbage is great, I used to play it with my dad when I was a teenager. Still wonder if I'll ever have, or even see, a 29 hand.