Lake Superior Cribbage

Definition o

Lake Superior Cribbage is an educational game which allows players to travel the 1,300 mile Lake Superior Circle Tour while using the gamesmanship principles of standard 2-handed cribbage.

Reference: http://www.cribbage.org

LAKE SUPERIOR CRIBBAGE is truly the GEM of Board Games!

G eography
E nvironment Pure Amusement
M athmatics

Objective o

A total of 121 spaces or points must be scored by a player through the selection and play of cards, prior to the opponent. The gameboard features an actual Nimbus 7 satellite image from space of Lake Superior. Instead of holes in a board, LSC has pegging 121 spaces ... the best of tourism stops around the "big lake".

Docktor Grube's Lake Superior Circle Tour creates a satellite assisted travel experience of 121 tourism game spaces in three American states and one Canadian province. (Ontario/Minnesota/Wisconsin/Michigan)

Players And Equipment o

The LSC simulation game is a 2-handed cribbage game with educational game questions built into the rules. Players are provided a satellite image gameboard with a 121 space race track around Lake superior,, a standard deck of playing cards, steel game tokens. The LSA Official Rules and Game Questions are posted on the net.

Reference: http://www.gamesbygrube.com/cribbagelakesuperior.html

Start And Finish o

Players begin at the green space marked START and finish at the red space marked GAME SPACE. The Winner of Lake Superior Cribbage is the first player who lands on the GAME SPACE by scoring 121 or more spaces.

Historic Iron Pegs: Great Lakes Steel NUTS and BOLTS were selected as the game tokens because of steel's lasting durability; easy junk drawer replacement if lost; and the humor in being the 'nut'!

Lake Superior Cribbage Rules o

(Required Play) Lake Superior Cribbage applies CRIBBAGE The Official Rules by the American Cribbage Congress plus DOCKTOR GRUBE'S RULES which add a flair of academic trivia to The GEM of Board Games

Docktor Grube's TIC's o

(Bonus Play) When a player lands on a TIC (Travel Information Centre) space, the player draws a game card and answers the question. (Right answer answer moves two spaces, wrong answer moves back one spaces.)

Penality Play: If a player lands on the Hurley Saloon District space, the player must retreat to the Wisonsin Border space.

Kathryn Grube's Cribbage Dictionary o

Crib four cards laid to side for dealer
Cribbage best two-hand game in the world
Cut Jack jack turned up afterthe deck is cut
Dealing two players are dealt six cards, one at a time
Deck standard pack of 52 cards
Deuce two-spot card
Discard to lay aside two cards for the crib
Double Run Two three-card straights including a pair
Fifteen-two count of cards totaling 15, two spaces are scored
15\2 symbol for fifteen-two
Flush four or five cards of the same suit
Gameboard uses steel tokens to record score
Go last card played under or equal to 31
Grube author of Cribbage d'Etroit
His Heels cut jack turned for starter card
His Nobs right jack; jack in hand
Muggins scoring bonus spaces missed by your opponent
Pair two cards of the same denominations as two queens
Pone player who is not dealing
Right Jack jack, in hand, same suit as starter card, his nobs
Sequence straight or run of at least three cards, as 7,8,9
Showing exposing the hand and counting the values
Spacing act of moving game tokens in scoring; pegging
Spotter playing cards spots, spades\hearts\diamonds\clubs
Starter Card card turned up after pack is cut
Straight sequence of three or more cards, such as 7,8,9,10
Tenth Cards ten-point value; kings, queens, jacks, and tens
Token steel game pieces used in scoring
Trey three-spot card
Wergin author of Cribbage For Kids
Winning scoring 121 spaces before opponent

Card Dealing o

Each player is dealt six (6) cards, one at a time, face down. Dealing of the cards alternates with the dealer having the advantage of a Crib or extra hand to score spaces.

Rank and Pip Value o

The four suits are equal and the cards rank from King down to Ace. The Pip Card values are K-10, Q-10, J-10, 10-10, 9-9, 8-8, 7-7, 6-6, 5-5, 4-4, 3-3, 2-2, A-1.

The Crib o

Each player puts two (2) cards in the dealer's crib, face down. This hand is a bonus for the dealer and is counted after the play of players is concluded. Always place the crib cards and deck of playing cards next to the dealer to insure proper counting.

The Cut o

Each player now has four (4) cards. The pone cuts the cards, the dealer turns the starter card up and puts it on top of the deck of cards with the remaining cards facing down. If a Jack (His Heels) is cut, the dealer moves ahead two (2) spaces.

Player's Play o

The pone begins play by laying a card down and announcing the counting value. The dealer puts a card down and announces the combined score. The play continues with alternate counting values being announced until 31 or less is reached. A 31 count scores two (2) spaces, whereas, less than 31 scores one (1) space. All cards must be played until 31 or less is reached even if the opponent cannot play.

Spacing o

During the counting of play of 31 or less, spacing or pegging occurs by the players. Two (2) spaces are scored for a perfect 31 and one (1) space for less than 31.

Fifteen-two: Any combination that makes fifteen counts two spaces.

Pair: Playing a card of the same rank which matches scores two (2) spaces.

Playing a card of the third (3) rank that matches scores six (6) spaces.

Playing a card of the fourth (4) rank that matches scores twelve (12) spaces.

Run: Playing three (3) cards in a row that form a sequence or a run scores three (3) spaces. For example, 3, 4, 5 for a count of twelve (12) points and movement of three (3) spaces for the opponent who played the last card. Cards do not need to be in sequence. For example 3, 5, 4 played for acount of twelve (12) points and movement of three (3) spaces. Sequences can also be more that three (3) cards such as 6, 7, 8, 9, played in sequence scoring three and four points respectively.

Counting A Hand o

After the play, lay your cards face up on the simulation game gameboard. This is called the showing and allows both players tocount each others hands to to determine the exact number of spaces for movement of the game tokens.

Counting is always done out loud. Take your time because your opponent is entitled to the counting spaces you miss. This age-old practice is known as Muggins and is called by your opponent after you have moved your game token.

Pone always counts first hand. Pone also moves game tokens first. The Starter Card and four (4) cards dealt constitute the counting hand for each player.

Scoring and combinations are:

Fifteen-two: Each combination of cards that total fifteen score two (2) spaces. Pair: Each pair of cards of the same rank scores two (2) spaces; three (3) pair scores six (6) spaces; four (4) pair scores twelve (12) spaces.

Run: Combinations of three or more in straight sequence score one space for each card in the sequence.

Double Run: Two-three card or four-card straights, including one pair score eight (8) and ten (10) spaces respectively.

Double, Double Run: Two three card straights including two pairs score sixteen (16) spaces.

Triple Run: Three three-card straights, including three of a kind score fifteen (15) spaces.

Flush: Four cards of the same suit in the Hand score four (4) spaces; four cards in the hand or Crib of the same suit as the Starter Card score five (5) spaces. There is no count for a four (4) flush in a Crib.

His Nobs: Jack, in the Hand or Crib, of the same suit as the Starter Card scores one (1) space.

His Heels: Jack, when it is turned up after the cut as the Starter Card scores two (2) spaces.

Scoring A Hand o

The highest possible hand is twenty-nine (29) spaces, J,5,5,5, with 5 of Jack suit cut as the Starter Card.

A double run is a run with one (1) card duplicated such as K,Q,J, 10, Q and scores eight (8) spaces. A triple run is a run of three (3) triplicated such as 2,2,2,3,4 and scores fifteen (15) spaces. 6,6,4,4,5 scores twenty-four(24) which includes eight (8) fifteen-twos and a double, double run of sixteen (16).

English Pegnote: o

Sir John Suckling devised the ultimate scorekeeper by placing a ship's wooden compass between card playing Cribbage players. The ships of this era used a wooden, traverse compass which consisted of drilled compass degree holes for inserting wooden peg lines.

This inventive method of scoring points by players putting pegs in holes allowed Sir John, England's "Greatest Gallant and Greatest Gamester", the time to set the odds and accept wagers from his fellow, English gamesters. circa 1640.

LAKE SUPERIOR CRIBBAGE QUESTIONS

Lake Superior Game Questions: Print out these game questions to be used with LSC gameboard + "nut & bolt" game markers. Cut and paste questions on playing card stock. YOUR opponent is to ask you two questions after each hand. MOVE forward one space for correct answer. MOVE backward one space for each incorrect answer.

ONTARIO

1. The Agawa Canyon Train Tours service ______ tourists yearly.
100,000

2. Thunder Bay Ontario is the ______ city in population on Lake Superior.
largest

3. ______ is the Objibwa word for swift water through a narrows.
Batchawana

4. C.O. Somes, a homesteader believed that _______ was synonymous with travel.
learning

5. Agawa Indian Crafts is Canada's largest outlet for wooden ______.
carvings

6. East of Thunder Bay Ontario is the ______ Monument and Lookout.
Terry Fox

7. Painted in the Agawa Rock cliffs are Indian ______.
pictographs

8. Lake Superior has a ______ effect due to winds and heat funnels from shoreline rock.
tide

MINNESOTA

9. Glensheen Mansion signifies the wealth of the ______ family.
Congdon

10. A bimonthly publication on Lake Superior living is ______.
Lake Superior Magazine

11. ______ wrote the best selling nautical work The Superior Way, 2nd Edition.
Bonnie Dahl

12. ______ feature ski hills, gondola rides, and the Alpine Slide.
Lutsen Mountains

13. C.A.A. Nelson, , a tourism visionary built the ______ in 1894.
Lutsen Resort

14. Ojibwa language describes ______ as Nanabijou's Spirit or Sweetwater Sea.
Gitche Gumee

16. The name ______ lighthouse means visual illusion of severed rock.
Split Rock

WISCONSIN

17. Lake Superior's water temperatures average ______ degrees F.
42

18. Lake Superior iron reserves supply ______ % of USA needs.
97

19. ______ Wisconsin is home to the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame.
Hayward

20. ______ was the cargo of the 1896 whaleback vessel S.S. Meteor.
Iron ore

21. Fairlawn is a 42-room victorian residence built for Martin ______.
Pattison

22. ______ Wisconsin is the world's largest dock for iron ore, coal and grain.
Superior

23. The Apostle Islands are twenty-two islands north of the ______ Peninsula.
Bayfield

24. Madeline Island is not part of the Apostle Islands National Lake Shore because of ______.
development

MICHIGAN

25. Sport fishing by licensed anglers is ______ times larger than commercial fishing.
15

26. ______ pollutants are serious contaminates to the environment.
Air

27. Paquaming Michigan a present day ghost town was envisioned by ______ as a future city.
Henry Ford

28. ______ Theatre was constructed in the 1920's by imported Italian artisans.
Calumet

29. ______ Michigan is the site of the USA National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum.
Ishpeming

30. ______ Michigan is Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore cruise site.
Munising

31. Tourists can travel the St. Mary's shipping Canal using the ______.
Soo Locks Boat Tours Boat

32. ______ RV Park and Campground is a unique Indian motiff camp site.
Gitche Gumee