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> Only annoying bit is how often you have to reshuffle, which isn't a problem if you play some of the excellent apps available. If you spend an hour learning h

by floren 4y ago

> Only annoying bit is how often you have to reshuffle, which isn't a problem if you play some of the excellent apps available. If you spend an hour learning how to shuffle properly, the reshuffling becomes just another enjoyable part of the process! edit: not implying that you, personally, shuffle badly now, just that I find the act of shuffling pleasing in its own right But speaking of cribbage "apps", the bsdgames package on Linux distros will generally include a pretty good command-line cribbage implementation.

cableshaft 4y ago
I get paranoid about bending my cards, so I tend to shuffle in a less swift way to avoid bending them (I don't care as much about it for traditional playing cards but kind of a habit from my hobby board games where everything is a lot more expensive to replace and often out of print). Command-line Cribbage is interesting, might check that out sometime. I'm partial to the Cribbage Classic iOS/Android app, as it can analyze your decisions if you enable it, and let you know how optimal your choices are and even can provide a full ranked list of each 4-card hand you can make out of the 6 cards, with minimum possible score and average score. It can also remind you when you're about to miss a scoring opportunity (like you place a card down to get to 15 and score 2 points, but it goes "yo dummy, you've got a card that can make that a run and score 3 points, you sure you want to do that?). I don't really need that now, but when I was learning it was useful to enable. I think it helped me get better at the game a lot faster by seeing "Oh damn, my choice is like the fifth best? What's the best one....oh, okay, yeah that makes sense" Although sometimes it's like "Hey, that hand is only going to score on average 6.16 points. You should pick this hand which will score on average 6.18 points!"

by floren 4y ago

cableshaft 4y ago

I get paranoid about bending my cards, so I tend to shuffle in a less swift way to avoid bending them (I don't care as much about it for traditional playing cards but kind of a habit from my hobby board games where everything is a lot more expensive to replace and often out of print). Command-line Cribbage is interesting, might check that out sometime. I'm partial to the Cribbage Classic iOS/Android app, as it can analyze your decisions if you enable it, and let you know how optimal your choices are and even can provide a full ranked list of each 4-card hand you can make out of the 6 cards, with minimum possible score and average score. It can also remind you when you're about to miss a scoring opportunity (like you place a card down to get to 15 and score 2 points, but it goes "yo dummy, you've got a card that can make that a run and score 3 points, you sure you want to do that?). I don't really need that now, but when I was learning it was useful to enable. I think it helped me get better at the game a lot faster by seeing "Oh damn, my choice is like the fifth best? What's the best one....oh, okay, yeah that makes sense" Although sometimes it's like "Hey, that hand is only going to score on average 6.16 points. You should pick this hand which will score on average 6.18 points!"