Many cribbage hands will support multiple strategies so each hand must be carefully examined in light of the next Milestone to be reached. The Milestone Cribbage board features a new, unique layout of the traditional game tracks to enhance the game.Īs the game proceeds, each player faces multiple Milestones along the way. Failure to reach a Milestone results in falling back. The cribbage board is no longer one dimensional. The distance one is away from the next Milestone can dramatically affect the strategy for the upcoming hand. Reaching these Milestones are key to winning the game. As the name implies, there are various Milestones that affect play from start to finish. Milestone Cribbage is played entirely according to the standard rules of Cribbage, with the addition of two more rules. I got the idea for a different version of cribbage, and before the morning was over, the game of Milestone Cribbage was invented. Gathered around a friend’s kitchen table were the usual after-work group of computer operators, card players, and beer drinkers, accompanied by a case of bar bottle Buds.

Milestone Cribbage came to be one spring morning in 1979 after working the graveyard shift. Milestone Cribbage history The Game of Milestone Cribbage