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skunk, double-skunk
""Some cribbage boards are marked with an ""S"" in place of ""90"" because a losing player is said to be ""skunked"" if, when the game ends, that player has 90 or fewer points. (In betting games, this would double the wager; for example, if playing for a quarter per game, then a player who is ""skunked"" typically owes two quarters).""

I see no dispute about this, except that all three card game rule books that I have say that skunk (or ""lurch"") occurs at the half-way mark and make no mention of double-skunk. Furthermore, I find on the internet one mention that ""standard"" cribbage has no skunking. Anyone know the history of when these variations took precedence and seem to have become ""standard.""?"