The Rampant Strawberry Inn

  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...

                                        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...