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Holiday time is family time! Instead of hovering around the television this year, why not break out a deck of cards and have some old-fashioned fun! This holiday, start a family tradition and teach your kids the age-old game of Cribbage. Don’t know how to play? Not a problem, just check out Bicycle online for the rules!
Cribbage is one of the best two-hand games – and one of the oldest as it dates as far back as the seventeenth century. Cribbage evolved from an earlier English game called “Noddy”. Rather than keeping score with a pencil and paper, a Cribbage board is used for scoring. Bicycle sent me a real wooden Cribbage board with 3 coloured tracks with holes to accommodate the pegs. Cribbage is a fast-moving game and the board and pegs help to reduce errors in scoring. How novel!
Bicycle also offers extra sets of wooden Cribbage board pegs so that you will always have a backup should a piece go missing. The pegs are sturdy and designed to fit snugly into the Bicycle wooden Cribbage board.
Cribbage wouldn’t be Cribbage without playing cards so I was also sent a pair of red and blue Bicycle standard poker decks. Bicycle brand playing cards are known for quality, heritage and bringing people together for generations. They have been a art of household gaming since 1885, no wonder when I think of playing cards I immediately picture the Bicycle brand cards! Every Bicycle brand playing card is crafted for quality so you can trust their cards hand after hand.
A problem I often encounter when playing cards with others is an inability (theirs, not mine) to shuffle the deck of cards properly. It can be quite painful to watch someone struggle to slowly shuffle a deck of cards, only to find that it has been poorly done when you do start to play again. Bicycle has taken care of that with the Bicycle brand card shuffler. Use it to speed up your card games and forget accusations of foul play with its professional shuffle. The card shuffler is perfect for one or two deck games. You just cut the deck, place each half in the shuffler, press the lever and you will have a perfectly shuffled deck each and every time!
Since Cribbage is best played with two players it is perfect for Mom and Dad to play Christmas eve after putting out all the gifts under the tree, but it can also be played as a team with four players so the whole family can get in on the action!
Win it:
One Canadian Frugal Mom Eh reader will win the ultimate Cribbage package including a Wooden Cribbage board, wooden Cribbage board pegs, a pair of red and blue Bicycle standard poker decks and a card shuffler! Giveaway ends on January 3rd, 2014 at 11:59 pm EST. See Giveaway Tools form for entry and T&C.
Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!
I love cribbage!! And, I am hoping I can get my daughter into it too. My best friend and I get together at least once a month for a cards and board games night, complete with supper. This would be a great addition to our collection
My father taught me how to play cribbage and euchre when I was younger. I’ve never heard of Six-Hand Five Hundred before, maybe I’d like to learn that game.
Cribbage was always a family favourite of my parents and grandparents. I taught my children how to play at a young age and am now in the process of teaching my grandchildren.
I have always wanted to learn how to play euchre or gin. Seeing this cribbage board brought back some very fond memories of me playing this game with my grandparents when I was little. Thank you so much for posting this,Happy New Year!
Solitaire is one of my fans 🙂
Gin.
I would like to learn how to play
Samba
I’d like to play Gin!
I’d like to learn to play gin 🙂
Gin and 120’s my fav
solitaire
Hearts sounds interesting.
I’d like to play Gin!
I would like to learn how to play Bridge.
I think that Bicycle Po-Ke-No® looks like an interesting game and I’m pretty sure my grandchildren could join in the fun too.
I like solitaire
I love cribbage!! And, I am hoping I can get my daughter into it too. My best friend and I get together at least once a month for a cards and board games night, complete with supper. This would be a great addition to our collection
I would like to learn how to play Bridge next.
I have always wanted to learn how to play Gin 😀
rummy
I’d like to learn some of the magic tricks.
I’d like to know what Bridge is all about.
BRIDGE
Bridge
Visited Bicycle and another card game I am interested in learning to play is “Straight Poker”
would love to learn to play Gin
Take the train.
Would love to learn how to play Canasta
bridge
eukre
My father taught me how to play cribbage and euchre when I was younger. I’ve never heard of Six-Hand Five Hundred before, maybe I’d like to learn that game.
eukre
I would like to play Gin again, has been years
I’d love to remember how to play eukre. My grandparents taught it to me years ago and I remember that I liked it.
I’d like too learn how to play Gin.
I would like the Bicycle Poker Sets!
Sir Garnet sounds quite interesting to play.
I would like to learn the game ” I doubt it.” Sounds fun.
Canasta
I would love to play 4-mation, sounds like a great game for the family to play on a sunday afternoon!
PO Ke No looks like it would be fun!
i’d like to learn how to play Klondike
bridge
Gin
Poker.
gin!
I’d like to learn to play Gin.
4-Mation game
Take the Train
I have always wanted to learn how to play Bridge
I always meant to learn how to play Hearts
Bridge but I think it is too hard.
Cribbage was always a family favourite of my parents and grandparents. I taught my children how to play at a young age and am now in the process of teaching my grandchildren.
bicycle dice
I’d like to learn how to play Whist.
Always played cribbage with my father and miss that I can’t do so since he’s now passed away.
love Euchre
I would love to learn Hearts. I learned when I was a kid, i think, but I forget now.
Po-Ke-No
I’d like to play Gin!!!
love cribbage
Bridge would be interesting.
this would be great and I can learn how to play many games lol
For me it is Bridge or Euchre.
I play with my Mother in Law on visits! Would love to win her a new set as hers is let’s just say….Aging 😉
15 for 2
I’ve been playing crib since I was 10, I am 42 now. I play with my kids now.
Would love to learn how to play Po-ke-no
I would love to play Rummy!
We hold cribbage tournaments for all our friends at least 4 times a year
pinochle
Gin!
bridge
I’d like to learn how to play Canasta.
GREAT GAME
I know how to play Bridge but I would like to learn “Contract Bridge”
Euchre.
I would like to learn to play Tarbish. Perhaps one pf these days.
I love to play Poker !!!
I like to learn to play bridge.
I’d love to try take the train.
I love their poker sets
id like to learn how to play hearts
I would like to learn to play bridge
I would love to learn how to play Canasta
Gin!
Fish and Crazy 8’s
I’d love a poker set.
Po-ke-no
Poker set
I’d like to try Po-ke-no.
I would love to learn how to play Euchre!
Euchre!
I would love to learn how to play Po-ke-no
I would to know who to play bridge.
love to know how to play bridge
I would like to learn how to play Poker.
I’m not familiar with railroad euchre, so I would want to learn it!
I played Tarbish once but I completely forget how. I would like to relearn.
I would like to learn how to play rummy.
I have always wanted to learn to play bridge.
I’ve always wanted to learn to play Poker!
I would like to learn how to play Euchre. Thank you for the super giveaway opportunity. Keep up the terrific blogging.
bridge
Season’s Greetings! I am interested in learning to play Bridge. Thanks for sponsoring this giveaway and for the opportunity to participate.
We also play Auction 45s and Rummoli. Would so love to win this prize packages.
I have always wanted to learn how to play euchre or gin. Seeing this cribbage board brought back some very fond memories of me playing this game with my grandparents when I was little. Thank you so much for posting this,Happy New Year!
Gin would be good!
I’d like to learn how to play Bicycle Euchre
I’ve never learned to play POKER. Not that I would have anywhere to go and play – but would like to know.
I’d also like to learn how to play Gin.
hearts
I would like to learn gin
I would love the Bicycle Classic Kids Card Games
I would like to learn how to play Gin
Poker!
Bridge
I would like to learn how to play Hearts again – I used to know how, a long time ago, but I’ve forgotten. 🙂
would like to learn Gin. Never did learn it!
Gin
I use to play gin many moons ago. I would like to learn it again, if I only had a partner that liked cards.
Bicycle Dice. I have not played this game in years!
Would like to learn poker!
Take the train looks fun, I think my grandson and I would have a blast playing.
I love playing Canasta, would like to learn how to play Gin
I’d like to learn to play Take the Train
Take the train.
Gin 🙂 I already like it in my martini now time to learn the game 😛
I’d like to learn to play Bridge
gin