cribbage

1. (card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.Examples: "His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing at cribbage, 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 played cribbage."; ""No one remembers cribbage now," […]"countableuncountable