My wife and I play a lot of chess, we have… ~ 3 boards. We also play Cribbage, but as we are in the middle of moving and are missing one Cribbage board…
Hey, we have a chess board. So our pieces are pawns (two black, two white). We have cards. And we race around the chess board until you get to the center. I found a solution.
I like your solution.
There are a number of free cribbage board apps for cellphones, tablets, and laptop computers. Hit up your app stores and choose the one you like best.
But there’s only 64 squares on a chessboard, and cribbage plays to 121.
Yeah, I’m confused as well with the 64 vs 121 thing.
You can play a shortened version of the game where you go only to 61. It’s not uncommon to find cribbage boards set up like this where the idea is you make two passes over the board to play a standard game. But even if only playing to 61, I’m not sure how you do it on a 64-square grid.
Also, what is the “center” of a 64-square board? There are 4 squares that make up the center.
ETA: Unless you are saying that the four squares together are the center, which means there are 60 squares outside of that, and the 61st peg goes into that region. I guess that works. Do you treat the board as a inward spiral track? And do you each use the same track and just squeeze the pawns into the same space if needed? And do you circle it twice if you play a full game?
Yeah, done that. We really don’t like the apps.
Go around twice. We are still sorting it out. It was an ad-hoc ‘solution’.
Right. We’ve only done this a couple of times. We have put a King dead center so it touches all four squares. First one to reach one of the kings squares wins. We are still trying to sort this out, but it sort of allows us to play.
I’ve never used a Crib board, why would I when pen and paper is so much more convenient?
The cribbage board is reusable. There’s also the visual element with the pegs.
It’s been years since I’ve played cribbage. Is there something special about the scores 121 or 61 that require a game to end there? Does ending at 64 break the game somehow?
I don’t see why you couldn’t play to any number the two players agree on. Played with three people one time.
The scoring is fast and dynamic that it is a hell of a lot more convenient using a cribbage board than a bunch of tally marks or whatever you might do with pen and paper.
Yup. I thought about pen/paper. Umm… no. I’d rather use Mancala board. Wait, that might work! Pretty weird though. I’ve already entered the Twilight Zone with trying to use a Chess board.
I’m trying to make a chess board sort of work 'cause we seem to have mis-placed one (packing/moving).
My Wife and I only play online when we are apart. When we are together, we won’t. It’s more conversation than play and what album would you like to listen to next?