The Rampant Strawberry Inn

Karniffel Germany and Switzerland played from1420- to today The Karniffel card game is indeed significant in European card-playing history, recognized as one of the oldest continual traditions of playing cards on the continent. Originating in the early 15th century, the game is linked to both Germany and Switzerland, and its rules have evolved over the centuries while maintaining fundamental elements that mark its historical continuity. Historical Background and Significance : The game first appeared in German-speaking regions around the 1420s, and it's documented in records from cities such as Strasbourg. It is named after a character in the game, often depicted as a jester or fool, which reflects the game’s playful nature. During the late medieval and Renaissance periods, Karniffel became especially popular, noted for its unique mechanics and structure compared to other games of its time. It is recognized as the first documented European card game to feature the concept of ...

  The Game of Nodde: as Redacted By Lady Mwynwen Ysginidd Called Strawberry from Willughby, Francis, “A Volume of Plaies” Object: To peg (score) 31 or greater before your opponent Equipment used to play: a deck of 52 cards, a Nodde board or a tally board/sheet Aces: 1 point 2-10: scored at face value. For example, a 3 card would be worth 3 points. Jacks, Queens, Kings: 10 points The board is 2 to 4  tracks of holes that pegs for scoring will fit. (Though score could be kept on a tally) There are 30 holes for scoring for each player, then one more shared hole for the winners peg. A board could have but doesn’t require two extra holes in each track for the starting pegs to rest before scoring starts. The players always move the hindmost peg and count from the foremost peg. How to play:  Two to six players. If play is with four players, you can play teams, then it is played as teams of two. Team players sit alternating with opponents. Teams are on the sam...

  One & Thirty   Thirty-One is one of the card world’s oldest games, dating back to at least the 1440s. Considered a gentleman’s gambling game, Thirty-One was mentioned in one of Bernadine of Sienne’s anti-gambling sermons. Many games scholars consider Thirty-One to be an early ancestor of the games Blackjack and Cribbage. Thirty-One is first mentioned in a French translation of a 1440 sermon by the Italian, Saint Bernadine, so is believed to be of Italian origin. It is mentioned by Rabelais, Cardano, and numerous other 16th century sources. The game spread rapidly across Europe to become popular in France, England, and Ireland and is a precursor to Vingt-Un. In the 1670s, Francis Willughby recorded Thirty-One being played in England. mentioned in Shakespeare "Bone-ace.  This old game, popularly called "One-and-Thirty," is alluded to by Grumio in "Taming of the Shrew" (i. 2): "Well, was it fit for a servant to use his master so; being, perhaps, for aug...

 The Game of Goose A Board & How to play  The goose board, dice & pawn 2 to 6 player game. The game requires two, 6 sided dice, the board of 63 spaces with hazards marked, and game pawns for player   Goal land on 63 exactly first. Each player rolls one die and highest roll goes first then play moves to the left. Game can be played with gambling (I suggest chocolate kisses). If so players agree on the stakes at the start. Each player places 1 stake in the center making the pool. Every time a player lands on a Hazzard they pay one stake. When players land on other players including the prison and the well both players pay one stake. Fist player to land on 63 exactly wins the pool. Geese are not hazards.  (Bonus rule modern; you win one stake back every time you land on a Goose) 63 must be reached exactly, such Overthrows are completed by counting the excess spaces backwards from 63.  You will notice that the geese on the board are spaced in two sequen...

  I am re trying to carve a goose board print block. It will be a solid one not the many mini blocks put together. I think I can only do 2 squares at a time by hand, my hands cannot handle more. The limits of EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) means if I limit this work that I might be able to do the work everyday with out missing too many days in-between. If it turns out too much for my hands I will switch to working on it every other day. I have plans every weekend for the next 3 weekends How  I am making this stamp. I have graphite paper. I traced the period board through the paper it is printed on by putting it on a window to see though this is so I am working in the reverse. Stamps have to be carved in reverse so when you stamp they are facing the correct way. Folks that use printing presses have and had to be able to read upside down and backwards.  I took the paper with the reverse board on it and then lay that on the rubber with Graphite paper between them. Then draw ov...

                                        Nodde Tudor Card Game                                                          A&S Fair A.S. 50 (2016) Mwynwen Ysginidd called Strawberry Nodde; a card game of strategy and luck, played during Tudor times by 2 to 4 players.          If one more person walks up to me while I am playing Cribbage with my lord and tells me it isn’t period, I am going to scream. I know that it is just out of period and based on a period game. [ Cribbage   was invented in the early 1600s by Sir John Suckling, an English courtier, poet, gamester and gambler. He was a lousy gambler and wanted an upper hand against others. He died broke. Not that I am teaching t...