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Cribbage and the poet
Tradition, recorded by the writer John Aubrey, credits the English poet Sir John Suckling with inventing cribbage in the early 1600s. It is still played with a pegboard to keep score.
Much of cribbage is counting combinations that add up to fifteen. A five and a ten make fifteen; so do a seven and an eight; so do a four, a five and a six. Two points for each.
In a cribbage hand of 7, 8 and 5, how many different ways make fifteen?
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