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.

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~fish-fingerer wrote:

Four matches always… two with the heads bitten off!

My father (who I’d always play with) was given some fancy carved ones for a birthday once but we never used them ‘cos they felt a bit twatty.