Noddy (card game)

Noddy
Cribbage without the crib
OriginEngland
FamilyMatching
Players2-4
SkillsCalculation
Cards52
DeckEnglish
Playing time30 min.
ChanceMedium
Related games
Cribbage • Costly Colours

Noddy (O.F. naudin[1]) also noddie, nodde or knave noddy, is a 16th-century English card game, ancestor of cribbage. It is the oldest identifiable card game with this gaming structure and thus probably also ancestral to the more-complicated 17th-century game of costly colours.

  1. ^ A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words)