CrossCribb
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CrossCribb is a card game
created in 1996 by Maynard's, a store located in Minneapolis, Minnesota
. It uses traditional cribbage scoring, a deck of cards, a custom game board, and score sheets that correspond with the game board.
Variations of the name include
Card game
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created in 1996 by Maynard's, a store located in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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. It uses traditional cribbage scoring, a deck of cards, a custom game board, and score sheets that correspond with the game board.
Variations of the name include
- Scribbage (kind of like scrabble but cribbage)
The game
- Played with 2 or 4 persons.
- Played on a table, custom made board or paper a 5x5 grid is laid out and used to hold one card each.
- Players alternate placing cards that have been divided (12 each for a 2 player game, 6 each for 4 players) trying to build cribbage hands horizontal or vertical in direction.
- The middle square contains one card that is flipped by the dealer
- Each player or team only scores the points made from counting cribbage hands for each row in one predetermined direction (either vertical or horizontal)
- The winning team scores the difference between the sums from all hands counted
- First player (or team) to 31 wins the game