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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 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!
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.
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.
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
gin
I’d like to learn to play Bridge
Gin 🙂 I already like it in my martini now time to learn the game 😛
Take the train.
I’d like to learn to play Take the Train
I love playing Canasta, would like to learn how to play Gin
Take the train looks fun, I think my grandson and I would have a blast playing.
Would like to learn poker!
Bicycle Dice. I have not played this game in years!
I use to play gin many moons ago. I would like to learn it again, if I only had a partner that liked cards.
Gin
would like to learn Gin. Never did learn it!
I would like to learn how to play Hearts again – I used to know how, a long time ago, but I’ve forgotten. 🙂
Bridge
Poker!
I would like to learn how to play Gin
I would love the Bicycle Classic Kids Card Games
I would like to learn gin
hearts
I’d also like to learn how to play Gin.
I’ve never learned to play POKER. Not that I would have anywhere to go and play – but would like to know.
I’d like to learn how to play Bicycle Euchre
Gin would be good!
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!
We also play Auction 45s and Rummoli. Would so love to win this prize packages.
Season’s Greetings! I am interested in learning to play Bridge. Thanks for sponsoring this giveaway and for the opportunity to participate.
bridge
I would like to learn how to play Euchre. Thank you for the super giveaway opportunity. Keep up the terrific blogging.
I’ve always wanted to learn to play Poker!
I have always wanted to learn to play bridge.
I would like to learn how to play rummy.
I played Tarbish once but I completely forget how. I would like to relearn.
I’m not familiar with railroad euchre, so I would want to learn it!
I would like to learn how to play Poker.
I would to know who to play bridge.
love to know how to play bridge
I would love to learn how to play Po-ke-no
Euchre!
I would love to learn how to play Euchre!
I’d like to try Po-ke-no.
Poker set
Po-ke-no
I’d love a poker set.
Fish and Crazy 8’s
Gin!
I would love to learn how to play Canasta
I would like to learn to play bridge
id like to learn how to play hearts
I love their poker sets
I’d love to try take the train.
I like to learn to play bridge.
I love to play Poker !!!
I would like to learn to play Tarbish. Perhaps one pf these days.
Euchre.
I know how to play Bridge but I would like to learn “Contract Bridge”
GREAT GAME
I’d like to learn how to play Canasta.
bridge
Gin!
pinochle
We hold cribbage tournaments for all our friends at least 4 times a year
I would love to play Rummy!
Would love to learn how to play Po-ke-no
I’ve been playing crib since I was 10, I am 42 now. I play with my kids now.
15 for 2
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 😉
For me it is Bridge or Euchre.
this would be great and I can learn how to play many games lol
Bridge would be interesting.
love cribbage
I’d like to play Gin!!!
Po-Ke-No
I would love to learn Hearts. I learned when I was a kid, i think, but I forget now.
love Euchre
Always played cribbage with my father and miss that I can’t do so since he’s now passed away.
I’d like to learn how to play Whist.
bicycle dice
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.
Bridge but I think it is too hard.
I always meant to learn how to play Hearts
I have always wanted to learn how to play Bridge
Take the Train
4-Mation game
I’d like to learn to play Gin.
gin!
Poker.
Gin
bridge
i’d like to learn how to play Klondike
PO Ke No looks like it would be fun!
I would love to play 4-mation, sounds like a great game for the family to play on a sunday afternoon!
Canasta
I would like to learn the game ” I doubt it.” Sounds fun.
Sir Garnet sounds quite interesting to play.
I would like the Bicycle Poker Sets!
I’d like too learn how to play Gin.
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 would like to play Gin again, has been years
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
bridge
Would love to learn how to play Canasta
Take the train.
would love to learn to play Gin
Visited Bicycle and another card game I am interested in learning to play is “Straight Poker”
Bridge
BRIDGE
I’d like to know what Bridge is all about.
I’d like to learn some of the magic tricks.
rummy
I have always wanted to learn how to play Gin 😀
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 like solitaire
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 would like to learn how to play Bridge.
I’d like to play Gin!
Hearts sounds interesting.
solitaire
Gin and 120’s my fav
I’d like to learn to play gin 🙂
I’d like to play Gin!
I would like to learn how to play
Samba
Gin.
Solitaire is one of my fans 🙂