He then made his fortune by winning large sums of money from them. One rumour says he gave gifts of marked cards to the aristocracy. Sir John Suckling was a courtier, a poet, and an ardent gambler. So an Englishman named Sir John Suckling changed the game and it became cribbage in the 17th Century. Noddy was about as useful for gambling as the game of SNAP.
The game of cribbage comes from ‘ noddy‘ a 16th Century card game.
