Editing Cribbage (section)

== Noddy and costly colours ==
The ancestor of cribbage is [[Noddy (card game)|noddy]], a game for two or four players, each receiving just three cards and playing and scoring in a similar manner to modern cribbage. However, instead of scoring 2 points for reaching 15 or 31 (called ''hitter''), players scored the number of constituent cards making up the ''point''. In addition, there was originally a third ''point'' at 25. Players also scored for pairs, [[Set (cards)#Description|prials]], runs and flushes as in cribbage. There was no crib and game was 31.

[[Costly colours]] may have developed separately from noddy, as it retains several original features that are no longer part of cribbage. Again, only three cards are dealt, there is no crib and it uses the same scoring scheme for ''points'' at 15, 25 and 31 or ''hitter''. What is new is that deuces play a similar role to jacks and that players may score for ''colours''—i.e., having three or four cards of the same suit or colour. Four cards of the same suit are ''costly colours'', hence the name.