a card game in which players score points by collecting different combinations of cards. The score is kept by putting small pegs in holes in a board. Topics Games and toysc2克裏比奇牌戲(用小木釘插在有孔的木板上記分) Word Originmid 17th cent.: related to crib; according to John Aubrey, the game was invented by the English poet Sir John Suckling; it seems to have been developed from an older game called Noddy.