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Noddy

Noddy is a card game released in 1589. It is played with 2 to 4 players and in about 30 minutes.

players
2–4
minutes
30

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Year of release
1589

About the game

Noddy (O.F. naudin) also noddie, nodde or knave noddy, is a 16th-century English card game, ancestor of cribbage. It is the oldest identifiable card game with this gaming structure and thus probably also ancestral to the more complicated 17th-century game of costly colours.
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