A Cribbage board is handy, but not absolutely required, for scoring. Bell's Board and Table games from many Civilisations. This adaptation of the card games to dominoes seems to have first appeared in the Royal Air Force officer's clubs in England during World War II, and was described in volume I of R.C. The scoring devide for Noddy was the Noddy-board, and it was presumably from this that the Cribbage board was developed. He can hardly have invented it from scratch, since references to the similar game of Noddy already appear in the previous century. The original game of Cribbage uses a standard deck of 52 playing cards and is said to have been invented in the 1600's by the English gamester Sir John Sucking.
