What's on the bench 2022

[minitnkr]

Thought the Jack turned was His Nobs. I'll peg two.

[Tim Marlow]

Two for turning him up and one “for his knobs” for having him in your hand when you peg it I thought…..been playing since I was about six, but haven’t played for years now……never scored 29, but have scored 19 countless times LOL.

[Mini Me]

Two for turning him up and one “for his knobs” for having him in your hand when you peg it I thought…..been playing since I was about six, but haven’t played for years now……never scored 29, but have scored 19 countless times LOL.

Just like you to do the "impossible", Tim

[Mini Me]

My highest is 24,…........once. most hands, happy with 8.

[minitnkr]

Took your two for turning it up & misspelling his name. The uncle who taught me the game & the guys at work I played with 40 yrs ago used "big boy rules" where if you lost count or miscounted or was slow in pegging you forfeited the pegs/points to your opponent.

[Tim Marlow]

Took your two for turning it up & misspelling his name. The uncle who taught me the game & the guys at work I played with 40 yrs ago used "big boy rules" where if you lost count or miscounted or was slow in pegging you forfeited the pegs/points to your opponent.

Called Muggins, I believe. Usually if you overcount you lose them, and if you undercount the opponents that spots it gets the extras…..

[The Smythe Meister]

Could that explain the old English phrase of ,"Don't be s Muggins"..
... as in Dolt ?!!

[Tim Marlow]

May well be right Andy. After a little digging I’ve found that it’s used as a similar game term in a few other games, dominos, for example. Also, Cribbage was apparently started in the early 1600s and Muggins as a derogatory term enters the language from the mid 1800s.
Amazing what I learn or find out after coming on here

[Mini Me]

Took your two for turning it up & misspelling his name. The uncle who taught me the game & the guys at work I played with 40 yrs ago used "big boy rules" where if you lost count or miscounted or was slow in pegging you forfeited the pegs/points to your opponent.

Same here except we kept it friendly and just jeered at the player who was a little slow or miscounted........always played 4-way singles, never partners. :thumb2:

[minitnkr]

Grew up in an area of vicious card players where pinochle, euchre, and even canasta were high stakes blood sport.

[Tim Marlow]

Same here except we kept it friendly and just jeered at the player who was a little slow or miscounted........always played 4-way singles, never partners. :thumb2:

Only played two or three as singles (I had a three handed board), or pairs. Never four way singles….played five or six card though, and pub league for one season….back in the day when pubs had teams for everything (crib, darts, dominos, Poole, bar billiards, and bar football to name some of the indoor games) and results were reported in the local papers.

[minitnkr]

Didn't mention Hearts as I still have bad dreams about it. :hungry:.

[Airborne01]

When I lived in Oxfordshire we had a pub game called 'Aunt Sally' - involved cleanly knocking a (ten)pin (called a 'Dolly) from a small circular disc mounted on a spike about four foot high; this was achieved by throwing wooden staves at the dolly - it didn't count if you knocked it off by hitting the spike! Sounds easy - it wasn't!
Steve

[Tim Marlow]

Try Hearts in Atlantis Paul….great book, probs for the same reason…..

[Mini Me]

Played a lot of Spades in the Navy.....not to mention "Acey Deucey"