Love it. Play all the time.

Love the game of cribbage and being able to play live games against other random players. I play on my iPad. I should give it 4 stars instead of 5, because it can be glitchy at times, but I truly love playing this game on this App when it is working properly. (Which is most of the time). Some of the glitches: Sometimes it will just shut down and the app closes in the middle of the game. Sometimes it is difficult to put the cards into the crib and at times the wrong cards go into the crib ruining the hand. At times the game just freezes and no cards can be moved. When the game seems to be glitchy, I delete the app and then reinstall it. I lose my stats when I do this, but I think it may help. Not sure though. I think it is great that the players can have a verbal conversation while playing even though I do not do it. Overall, I highly recommend this app and hope that the glitches get fixed.

Still no turn-based option… very disappointing

I have enjoyed this cribbage app in the past but it has now been made much more laborious to play multiple turn-based games simultaneously by adding additional steps to switch from one game to another - it is annoying enough that I may stop playing this app altogether. It is disappointing and aggravating to take a design/format that is reasonably smooth and "user-friendly" in its function and make it significantly less user-friendly. Hope this change is corrected very soon, otherwise I will stop playing it & find a better app. So disappointing and seems like the app designers are either not paying attention or not caring to make the app easy to use/play. Having an online multiplayer real time game is not always successful because people disconnect or get busy and cannot complete the game. I turn based game option makes it so much more flexible because you do not need to complete the game in real time. I know this option is still available through game Center. But there are also many apps that have turned based game options without game Center. So this is completely mystifying and extremely disappointing that this option is not available. It is OK playing with the AI periodically but that is not the same as playing an actual person. Please please please offer a turn based option again! 🙏

Good software design - it’s like ...

... playing with a real person (even in single player mode). Also works really well when playing online with a real person opponent. Appreciate options for auto scoring or scoring yourself - and especially the muggins option; muggins feature has taught me to be very careful and thorough when scoring! Playing different levels truly seems like really different levels of difficulty. I like the “Hint” feature especially after I’ve decided (but not put cards in crib yet) which ones I think are best for the crib - sometimes “we” agree - sometimes the hint shows me an option I might otherwise not have considered. Only caveat about that is that when making suggestions, the “Hint” suggestions seem to ignore who benefits from the crib. This version cost $2.99 😞 but overall I think it was 3 bucks well spent!

Not random

This is my second review because of how horrible the algorithm is for this game. The opponent wins the draw about 90% of the time. It gets a Jack about 75% of the time and cuts jacks like crazy. It will mirror my amazing hands and cribs. It will peg the heck out of me most games. And that is usually how I win because it won’t peg well. It isn’t because I got good Hans and cribs. I very rarely ever break 16. My cribs never get above 12. It will break 20 multiple times 2 out of 3 games. It will take the lead swinging around the second corner and if it doesn’t completely skunk me, it will win by coming from behind on the home stretch with a brilliant hand and crib and crazy pegs after I count first and come up 1-2 pegs short after not pegging even once the last hand. I get fours and aces with two face cards constantly and cut a card that gives it a great crib. When I win it’ll often be with 3-4 pegs to win with a 20+ hand and 12+ crib. This app used to be great. Now it’s only good for online P v P. It’s actually the best P v P cribbage app I’ve found but someone really screwed up this app somehow.

Very good to excellent cribbage app

VG to Excellent all around. I play it all the time. I only play the AI and it puts up a pretty good game, but like real people once you learn their style, they become predictable. The difference is that people than adapt/change their style and the AI doesn't. Hints it gives are ok to good for beginning to moderate players, but not expert advise and it has a few flaws in how it weights it's decision. A couple of minor UI issues: it doesn't sort your cards, sometimes when I am too fast it doesn't register my count correctly and I hit ok before realizing it missed the second digit (1 PT instead of 16). It knows I missed counted and it would be nice when miscounted is large to be asked "are you sure". Would like it to track pegging points for each game to see if you out pegged (skill) opponent as opposed to lucky hands and cuts.

Choices

I like that it will let you choose to count your own cards. After you’ve counted them, if you under counted it will tell you but you don’t get the points. If you over counted, it will penalize you. And it’s doing that while showing you what the points were for. I also like that you can get hints on card to play or put into the crib. You don’t have to tap hint. Sometimes what I like to do is decide, and then tap hint. Ultimately 90% of the time it doesn’t change my thinking. Some other times when I think about the hint I realize there’s something I wasn’t really seeing which means I’m learning. Since it doesn’t matter if I win or lose playing the computer, Enjoying playing while also adding some learning is really cool

Great

Yet Another Update: love it still. Another Update: a couple suggestions for improving turn based play. Minor chat ability would be fine but I'd love to see head-to-head stats in the Recent category of inviting "friends." Also, as others said, a quick rematch button would greatly improve UE instead of clicking eight (8!!!!!!) times to invite a rematch. Why does everybody show up as "Not Ranked?" The alerts aren't accurate most of the time - false alert badges pop up all the time. Oh, and sometimes you have to mug blindly because the other player's score doesn't show up - seems to be related to switching between games. Update: love turn-based play! Wasn't thrilled with the update at first but have grown used to play being a bit slower than before and it looks much better. Also, finally hit my 29! For all those that say the expert setting is too tough, you should consider playing hard until you're better at choosing your crib cards. There is no discernible advantage and I have a 61% win rate and am well ahead on skunking and double skunking. They make poor choices during card play that can easily be taken advantage of. Keep practicing.

Lots of Fun

I would like to begin this review by saying thank you. I grew up playing cribbage and your app gave me hours of enjoyment that made surviving 2020 a little bit easier. It definitely brought back some fond memories. As far as the play of the game is concerned there is little to complain about. The IF is simple and intuitive and easy to follow. The only issue for me occurs in expert mode where your opponent consistently makes choices that are without logic for a seasoned cribbage player. For a casual player I admit this is not a big deal and I certainly don’t think it should dissuade anyone from downloading this app. But I would hope the developer of such a well loved app would enjoy making it just a little better and more realistic by fixing (if possible) this small short coming.

Play the App Store's top rated cribbage game! With fluid action, this game is intuitive and easy to play for both novice and experienced players.

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A digital version of Cribbage from the same team that brought you Hearts Tournament, Spite and Malice, and Gin Rummy.

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