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Which seventeenth-century game described by Charles Cotton was related to cribbage?
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Modern 120-hole cribbage board.
The seventeenth-century game described by Charles Cotton in his 1674 work The Compleat Gamester that is related to cribbage is called costly colours. Like cribbage, costly colours utilized a special scoring board.1