Cribbage

Cribbage is a card game, traditionally for two players though adaptable for three or four, played with a standard 52-card deck and built around playing and grouping cards into combinations that score points, most distinctively any combination of cards totaling fifteen. Players track their scores on a dedicated cribbage board with pegs rather than on paper, and the game is built around the crib, also called the box or the kitty, a set-aside hand of discarded cards that is scored by the dealer; play moves through two separate scoring stages, one during the play of cards and one in counting each hand afterward. According to the antiquarian John Aubrey, the English poet Sir John Suckling invented cribbage in the early 17th century by modifying an older game called noddy, which fell into historical obscurity as cribbage endured and came to be called Britain's national card game. Charles Dickens depicted the game in The Old Curiosity Shop, and it also became popular among American prospectors, with the town of Nelson, Montana calling itself the Cribbage Capital of the World.