Tundras live: Dumb Dad Jokes, Incorrect Opinions, and Relationship Advice.

I think Toyota monitors this forum, and that they love trolling their customers. Just look at the latest "my DTE is wrong"/ "How big is my fuel tank" thread(s). It never ends, and some guy at Toyota is watching and laughing. I'm sure of it.

 

You need to send some of that my way. Before my wife got the 28 we were scoring less than 10 consistently in that game. Your crib had to be 24 since 26 is the same as 19. A few fun facts. For reference a hole in one in golf has 1 in 12,500 odds.

Cribbage 29 Hand!

The highest possible cribbage hand score is 29 points -- three Fives and a Jack in hand with the starter card (or cut card) being a Five of the same suit as the Jack - for "One For His Nobs".
The chances of getting this highest possible 29 Cribbage hand are 1 in 216,580!

Cribbage 28 Hand

This 2nd highest scoring cribbage hand can happen with any combination of Ten or Jack or Queen or King for a cut card combined with four Fives in hand except the above 29 hand
The chances of getting this 28 Cribbage hand are 1 in 15,028.

Cribbage 24 Hand

The 3rd highest cribbage hand is 24 Examples include: Ace with four Sevens, Nine with four Threes, etc.

Impossible Cribbage Hand Scores

It is impossible to get point scores of 27, 26, 25 and 19 for a cribbage hand. There is no possible combination of 5 cards that will produce the above point totals. In over-the-board cribbage, sometimes a Cribbage player will score zero points for their hand if they claim that they have a "19 hand".

Cribbage Hands' Stats

There are 12,994,800 possible cribbage hands if the cut card variations are included. Mathematically, the average hand score is calculated as 4.77 points. In the real hand statistics, however, the average hand point score is higher as cribbage players excersize control over their hands when they discard.

Dealer and Pone Average Hands

As the dealer tries to maximize the score in both the hand and the crib, the average hand for the dealer is lower than the average hand for pone. Statistics show that real Dealer's hands averages 7.95 points and the Pone's hand: 8.10 points.

 

Well there you go then. I didn't know there were impossible hands. LOL We just play.

Saw a single 29 back a decade or two. My Mom and sister were playing at hunting camp IIRC. Not sure who got it, but I remember it being a big deal. I barely played at that point, so the specialness was lost on me. According to Mom, I have an uncle who is stupid lucky and has 29s a few times. I have no way to verify this, but I don't have much reason to doubt it either.

Those average hands seem incredibly low. We feel cheated and like the game is moving slow if we aren't getting dozens and 10s on a semiregular. Some games we are getting pitiful hands though, and we accuse each other of shuffling the cribbage out of the deck.

 

That's the opposite of how I would have expressed it.

Sometimes my dad will say he scored 19 when he has nothing in his hand. His other favourite expression is "fegus machem" (sp?), which means dried figs.

 

Ah, and for us a zero is "spider shit" because "have you ever seen spider poo?"



Since then we've had large spiders live over our windowed doors and have indeed seen spider poo. Doesn't break the tradition though.

 

I'm gonna steal that.

 

Yeah, if I have a zero had I'll just say 19. I've never found a reason to say dried figs though.

 

Don't fuck with tradition!

 

Never knew the term Pone. I know "Nibs" and "Nobs", though we don't use those terms when we play.

I assume the probability stats are all for 2 hand cribbage. I'm curious if it would change for 3 and 4 hand.

 

That was new to me just now. Nibs and nobs are too similar so we just say one/two for the jack.

 

Ditto

 

We just say nobs for both.


We also don't steal points. Less competitive/more fun.

 

That works too.

But after my wife learned to play, we do steal points. She got me for a three card 15 a few days ago.

 

DO IT!

 

Me too. It might also have something to do with every time I was playing I was drinking. College does that.

 

Me too. I do enjoy the game, although I get my ass handed to me every time I play. Kind of like the game of life.

 

Remember, being healthy is basically dying as slowly as possible.

 

Has anyone else’s year started off with the afterburners in full glow?! Nucking futs around here.

Headed to Europe on Sunday so I get a bit if reprieve from the chaos next week. Get to tell the screaming monkeys “sorry, out of office for the week…”

 

Pretty quiet over here. Just chipping away at the same stuff I was chipping away at in December.

 

Winter storms definitely had an impact, but on days off now.

 

2nd game with a new deck today.



And that's my crib.

 

Few hands later and Mom gets this.

 

What's wrong with the avocado?

 

Sweet! What did I win?