| Cribbage without the crib | |
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| Origin | England |
|---|---|
| Family | Matching |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Skills | Calculation |
| Cards | 52 |
| Deck | English |
| Playing time | 30 min. |
| Chance | Medium |
| 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.
- ^ A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words)