Crib is the perfect pub game because it takes precisely two pints to play, and you all get to titter and giggle when you score “one for his knob”.

I have missed playing it through all the lockdowns.

Its also getting really hard to find the nice boards (the proper Tunbridgeware ones with bone and which fold in half to reveal the pegs and cards). Used to pick them up at carboots but they go for a tonne on eBay now.

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~fungmungus wrote (thread):

Agreed that it is difficult to find the desired quality anymore. Unless you're willing to pay a hefty price, most commercially available ones are of very poor quality. The best board I ever played on was a lovely homemade one that just used some painted nails as pegs. It was great. I suppose it is kind of funny to care, considering that the board is literally a score board and the game could be played just as easily with pen and paper or tallying on your phone or what not, and yet, I absolutely do care, and I think most serious crib players do as well.