Editing Cribbage (section)

==History==
[[File:Scrimshaw cribbage board. Museum of Anthropology. Vancouver. 2010.jpg|thumb|[[Scrimshaw]] cribbage board. Museum of Anthropology. Vancouver. 2010]]
According to [[John Aubrey]], cribbage was created by the [[England|English]] poet [[John Suckling (poet)|Sir John Suckling]] in the early 17th century, as a derivation of the game "[[noddy (card game)|noddy]]". While noddy has become a historical, rarely-played game,<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/f_Te3van4y8 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200617231434/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Te3van4y8&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |last1=Cash |first1=Cassidy |title=Experience Shakespeare: How to Play Noddy, a 16th Century Card Game |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Te3van4y8 |website=youtube |access-date=11 May 2019 |date=12 January 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> cribbage has continued as a popular game in the [[English language|English-speaking]] world.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Aubrey
| first = John
| author-link = John Aubrey
| editor = Andrew Clark
| title = Brief Lives chiefly of Contemporaries set down John Aubrey between the Years 1669 and 1696, Volume II
| year = 1898
| publisher = [[Clarendon Press]]
| page = 245
}}</ref> The objective of the game is to be the first player to score a target number of points, typically 61 or 121. Points are scored for showing certain jacks, playing the last card, for card combinations adding up to 15 or 31, and for pairs, triples, quadruples (cards of the same rank), [[run (cards)|runs]] (sequences of consecutive numbers irrespective of suit) and [[flush (cards)|flushes]] (sets of cards of the same suit).<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Rule 1. The Mechanics of Playing Cribbage |website=American Cribbage Congress Website |url=http://www.cribbage.org/NewSite/rules/rule1.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315141825/http://www.cribbage.org/NewSite/rules/rule1.asp |archive-date=15 March 2020 |access-date=11 May 2019 }}</ref>

The earliest rules were published in England and appear in [[John Cotgrave|Cotgrave]] (1662)<ref>Cotgrave (1662), pp. 369–371.</ref> and are soon followed by [[Francis Willughby|Willughby]] (1672)<ref>Willughby (1672).</ref> and [[Charles Cotton|Cotton]] (1674).<ref>Cotton (1674), pp. 106 ff.</ref>

The continuing popularity of cribbage is due in some part to the influence of the Victorian novelist [[Charles Dickens]], who depicted the game in his novel ''[[The Old Curiosity Shop]]''.<ref>"History of Cribbage" in {{cite book|last=Roya|first=Will|date=2021|title=Card Night: Classic Games, Classic Decks, and the History Behind Them|publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers|page=15|isbn=9780762473519}}</ref>

Cribbage was popular among prospectors in the American West, and the small mining town of Nelson, Montana, to this day has a sign proclaiming it the "Cribbage Capital of the World".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/outdoors/2017/11/07/confederates-gulch-cribbage-canyon/814504001/ |title=Confederates in the gulch, cribbage in the canyon |last=Inbody |first=Kristen |date=7 November 2017 |website=Great Falls Tribune |access-date=26 October 2022 |archive-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026195001/https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/outdoors/2017/11/07/confederates-gulch-cribbage-canyon/814504001/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://mooseradio.com/montana-is-home-to-the-cribbage-capital-of-the-world/ |title=Montana Is Home to the 'Cribbage Capital of the World' |last=Wolfe |first=Michelle |date=4 September 2020 |website=The Moose 94.7 FM |publisher=Townsquare Media, Inc. |access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref>

Cribbage is played by American [[submarine]]rs,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Klemenc |first1=Stacey Enesey |title=Cribbage: It's not just a game, it's an obsession |date=10 April 2013 |url=https://www.militarynews.com/norfolk-navy-flagship/entertainment/on_liberty/cribbage-it-s-not-just-a-game-it-s-an/article_fb6049b2-7b72-50ad-88df-cbb6e9decad7.html |access-date=22 July 2018}}</ref> serving as a common pastime. The [[wardroom]] of the oldest active submarine in the [[United States Pacific Fleet]] carries on board the personal cribbage board of [[World War II]] submarine commander and [[Medal of Honor]] recipient Rear Admiral [[Dick O'Kane]], and upon the boat's decommissioning, the board is transferred to the next oldest boat.<ref>{{cite news |title=The O'Kane Cribbage Board Is Passed Down |publisher=US Department of Defense |date=8 November 2019 |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/news/351195/okane-cribbage-board-passed-down |access-date=23 February 2020 |archive-date=24 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224160037/https://www.dvidshub.net/news/351195/okane-cribbage-board-passed-down |url-status=live }}</ref>