AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND - CRIBBAGE BOARD

Cribbage board was owned by Vera Briggs's family who lived on Sussex farm which was located in Byford. The board was used by the family to play the card game of cribbage, and has been altered by family members, as evidenced by a extra hole that has been drilled into the board and the drawing of black triangles over the original blue diamonds on the edges. Francis Thomas Briggs who lived on the farm served in the RAAF during World War II.
Cribbage is a card game where the object is to form counting combinations, by traditionally moving pegs on a cribbage board. The game developed from a earlier version called noddy, and was first played in the seventeenth century.
The classic design of the cribbage board has two sets of sixty holes, thirty on either side of the board, divided into five point sections. These series of holes are referred to as streets, with the pegs used to keep track of the score known as spilikins. Points are registered as having been scored by pegging along the board, with pegs used in a leap frog manner, one peg showing the previous score, the other peg showing the current score.
Unlike most other card games, points in cribbage are gained as the game is played, not at the end of the game.