Saturday, July 27, 2013

Cribbage Is Vicious

Cribbage is a vicious game, man and, it's supporters are zealous protectors of the realm.

Experienced players, in attempting to teach novices, do so at faster mile an hour.

They'll get the novice up to speed throwing cards around and then.........................

it's time for scoring.

Quick and dirty.

15-2, 15-4, 123, 234, 2, 4, 6, 8.

Get that?

Are you serious? Get what?

There is a lot to consider in reviewing a hand. Various combinations that add up to this, this thing that gets you these points, that thing that gets you those points, add this card to those cards then add the same card to other cards..................................

The novice cannot take it all in at a glance. You have to develop a way of perceiving, a method of seeing, that is cribbage tinged.

This comes with experience.

And with detailed and careful explanation of what exactly is going on.

Strangely, it appears that experienced cribbage players are incapable of slowing down.

It is possible that cribbage is somehow inextricably intertwined with meth addiction, although currently I have no empirical evidence as proof.

What remains to be seen is whether or not I become Speedy Gonzales after I "learn" the game.

Will I torture novices with speed of sound summaries of the scoring of the hand?

Or will I remember the bewilderment and slow it all down.

I am on the precipice of a strange and wondrous science experiment.

Learning how to play cribbage.

It could be some twisted black hole leading to dark secrets that will skew my life and scramble my perspective.

These are exciting times.

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