Cribaby...

Two of my children made up a game the other day - Cribaby. I played it tonight for the first time. It was a blast.

Cribaby was originally played with a deck of cards and scored on a cribbage board, but you can play it without the board and just mark points on a piece of paper. The score isn't the point anyway. If you play with a cribbage board the object is to move your peg to the end first. (This could take a very long time.) If you use the paper method, you can quit when you want to. If you're in charge (like if you're the parent), you can do this when you are ahead. Oh, but, of course, the score isn't the point.

Anyway here are the rules to Cribaby...

The first person draws a card, making sure no one else can see it, and states outloud what card has been drawn. Simple right?

The person to the draw-er's left then does what is required according to the rules below.

If you draw...

A = Do a short one man play.
2 = Make a speech about the importance of dairy products.
3 = Lift the oldest player or the next to oldest if you are the oldest.
4 = Roar like a lion, then sing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
5 = Mime being a preacher.
6 = Pretend you are a piece of prairie grass in the wind.
7 = Write a haiku.*
8 = Stare 10 seconds at a light, then say knee deep deep knee 5 times fast.
9 = Sing a song of your choice.
10 = Draw an animal. If a person guesses it, both of you get a point.
J = Do some ballerina moves. (Please note this is moves. It's plural.)
Q = Recite a nursery rhyme. If you don't know one, too bad.
K = Choose one of the previous actions to do.
Joker = Lose a turn.

If the player to the draw-er's left performs the required action, they receive one point. There is one exception. If the card drawn was a spade, the actor (that's the person who did the action) loses a point. You may pass at any time if you think the card is a spade, but you must do so before beginning the required feat. At the end of each turn, the draw-er reveals the card drawn then passes the deck to the player to his or her left. That person then becomes the draw-er and play continues to the left.

Any questions? We've never played this game without laughing hysterically. Try it!

*A haiku is a poem of 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7syllables, the third 5 syllables. They aren't supposed to rhyme, but who cares? (See Heavenly haiku..., Cribaby haiku... and Waffles... for examples.)