(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; thecribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing atcribbage, or dominos, or indulging the young baronet’s remarkable turn for cutting out trees, animals, or birds with tiny scissors on delicate paper.
How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl playedcribbage.
A variety ofpocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points forpairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.
Apoint scored in this variety of pocket billiards.
