ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,488, issued on April 7.
"Challenge cribbage game device and method" was invented by Keith Carson (Chemainus, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A challenge cribbage game comprising a cribbage board having at least two parallel player routes of 122 player holes along a path from a start position to a finish position, a single player hole at the finish position, and a plurality of challenge holes adjacent specific player holes along the parallel routes; providing a standard deck of cribbage playing cards; at least two pairs of matching player pegs and at least six additional challenge pegs; a list of challenge conditions, each corre...