Walk into the Guthrie Center public library on a Monday morning and you’ll notice a large gathering of people. What might look like a meeting to some, is actually free recreation for some of the community’s more mature residents, says head librarian Pat Sleister. “We always have our cribbage on Monday morning and it’s free! Anybody’s welcome, and if you don’t know how to play cribbage, come in anyway and I’m sure they’ll teach you.”

The library isn’t the only game in the area, though. Jack Tallman organizes The Guthrie County Cribbage Club and they meet every Wednesday at the Lake Panorama National Conference Center. On a busy week Tallman says they’ll have upwards of three dozen people in attendance.

Though the game of cribbage is nearly 400 years old, its modern popularity among today’s elderly comes from it being a prolific pastime for Navy submariners patrolling the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

If you want to try it out, show up at the Guthrie Center library at 9 a.m. Monday or head to the Lake Panorama Conference Center on a Wednesday at 8 a.m.