Cribbage Classic

Name: Cribbage Classic
Rating: 4.60205 (21078 reviews)

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User Reviews for Cribbage Classic

What?

If you have ever played cribbage it was a rare day when you saw hands like these more once a game. Apparently, choosing “pro” means that big hands will be given on both sides. It is a joke...but I play, get rid of the app, and get it again (until I yell, “BS!” And junk it again). PS love the layoutWhat do you mean “what?” So many hands over 10! Have played the game for 50 years and never seen so many huge hands. Very unrealistic. Win big, lose big! Have played other cribbage games and the average points for hands, cribs and pegging are lower than this game. If the cards are random how can that be? I’m not a programmer but it makes me wonder. I still enjoy it but...Late February 2020....I have stopped playing all games that begin with a hand or crib of 12 points or more (for either player) - I simply start a new game. My record is discarding 5 games before playing a whole game. Numerous other times I have discarded 3 games. I wonder if the easier levels have this problem. How do you program different levels anyway? You could have the opponent make “mistakes” but that seems difficult to control. Almost seems like it has to be the cards that are dealt. Hmmm. Will have to experiment.

all kcknamestaken, Mar 06, 2020

Very nice game

Ok, I played a long time before writing a review to see if others were correct. It has always counted correctly, I only play pro, and win 60% of the time. When it says I played suboptimally I always check, and I often disagree with program, I always play my cards. I am not sure what the program is missing (intuition?) but would expect, if program never makes a mistake and I do, that it would have a slight edge, but not the case, I ASSUME that there is a statistical bias in programs hands to make minor errors. I find the games fair, counting accurate, I am not sure why I win >50% I believe though there is a bias in pegging and the way it plays, but I won’t spoil it, you figure it out, if that is true it explains the lopsided win count, I can learn how it plays, but heuristically it can’t learn how I play. Just figured out THAT is why I am 60%. It is fun to try to anticipate how program will play, it has no style, just math. Love the program!

bahhumbug256, Sep 25, 2021

Computer consistently dealt great hands

This game is horrible. The interface and game play is fantastic. The hints available on easy mode are great for new players. Playing on standard mode is such a joke. The computer is consistently dealt a 10+ point hand. If it’s their crib you can forget about it. Pegging is also a joke, no matter what card I play first the computer happens to always have the right card to make 15. I play a 6 and it always has a 9, I play a 7 and it always has an 8. If I’m forced to play a 10 or face card then you can bet it’s got a 5. Even when I try to play a card that is 4 or under it’s got a match. When I think I’ve gotten the better of it by putting down the same number card and earning the two points, it always has another card of that same number to put down and earn the 6 points. I’ve never seen a game so tilted in favor of the computer. I’m not a sore loser, I actually don’t mind losing from time to time as I think it makes me a better cribbage player. This on the other hand makes me want to pull my hair out. I wouldn’t recommend this app to anybody. If I could give this app less than 1 star I would.

ftffhjuhj, Apr 20, 2021

Cribbage

This is a good app for learning how to play the game. I think it manipulates the cards to accomplish that. I sense trends in how hands are dealt and because you are playing essentially against a computer it has total control over how the game plays out based on your moves how you play the game and how you look at their examples of what would be the better choice in your crib selection and pegging points. For me it is also slow in how the cards are not dealt fast enough. It can't beat playing with real cards and real people. No computer manipulation there. But then this again is designed to offer you council on how to improve your game. What I need is an app simply to play the game. Not sure it exists. I have to say that when I first started I got a win average of around 65% and now I am barely above the 50% mark. It does seem to deal itself large counting hands like 16-24 frequently while I get crap cards that mostly have no hope for improvement. Therein lies my biggest frustration with this app. But I keep playing it whenever I have a free moment to slip in a game.

Mnfast, Feb 22, 2018

Fun game but not realistic

It’s a fun game to pass the time, but it’s not realistic at all. There are far more 12, 16, 20, etc. point hands than occur in an actual game of cribbage, like ridiculously more. And as others have noted, it seems the AI’s cards are fluid and not set, so they seem to have far more scoring plays against you than is realistic. They always seem to have the card to pair you up, the card to make 15 or 31, or the card to go one more over the top of you on a pegging run. It gets annoying.Now to rebut what a lot of people are saying as far as accuracy goes... I’ve been playing this for over 2 years and have well over 2,000 games in my statistics, and I have not once, not one single time, seen an inaccurate count. Maybe I just haven’t happened to see an error yet, but I think with over 2,000 games it would have happened at least once. My guess is that people don’t realize that in order for a flush to occur in the crib, the draw card must also be of the same suit. Also, somebody commented that an 8877 hand should always yield a minimum of 12 score, but what they are failing to recognize is that the analyzer is considering the two cards you are putting into the crib as well. So if you have an 8877 but put a k&5 into the crib, your minimum score is 10 after they collect their 2 points.

Saikonzack, Jun 04, 2018

Excellent game (+two suggestions)

This is an excellent cribbage game, especially since it’s free. Some reviewers claim that the game is tilted in favor of the computer, but I don’t think so. On pro level sometimes the computer gets more great hands, and sometimes I do. I’ve been skunked and I’ve skunked the Pro. Once I even double-skunked the Pro. On the Easy and Standard levels I feel like the game gives you a combination of you getting better cards, and the computer getting worse cards, in order to give you an advantage. I like the option of manually counting which is a great teaching tool. The game is great. The only things I would like to see, and this is totally personal, is an option in settings to have the computer count double-runs as double-runs, rather than as pairs plus individual runs as it does now. For example, if you have a double-run of eight, instead of counting “pair for two, run of three for five, run of three for eight,” just lift all the cards and say “double-run of eight.” The way it counts now is correct, and a great teaching tool as it breaks down the double-run into its components for the novice, but ultimately that’s not the vocabulary of the game. The other thing that would be fun to see is when a hand is worth 0 points, the computer should call it “19” points instead of 0. Both of those are super minor, but they would complete, as close as possible, the digital cribbage experience to real life.

ShaggyDjdzvhgsb, Sep 23, 2020

Easy to play and exceptional graphics

My dad taught me how to play cribbage about 45yrs ago. When I am playing this game I can still hear him counting “15 2, 15 4 and a pair is 8” or saying “be good to me!” when it was his crib and I was discarding my 2 cards lol. He used to let me get away with some things, more so when I was younger. I would drag out the game bc I would stare at the cards to make sure I didn’t leave points on the table that he could take! He made me learn by losing as often as I did in the beginning - yet he would teach me where I went wrong. About 11yrs ago I taught my son. He loves to play it, and we use the original cribbage board my dad, and I played on that was given to me when he passed. It was always quality time with my dad, and I when we would play several times a week. My dad bought the game on disc for the computer way back when computers took “discs” and he would play online for hours after my mom passed away. There was never a game he loved more, and I never thought to ask him why. Why cribbage? I am so happy I came across this app! It’s perfect in every way, and brings back some fond memories! :)

Sheilakayaus, May 28, 2022

Great game, Tiny Flaws

I have enjoyed the game and learned a great deal in playing. Telling the player (only after the game is over in my case, I don't want hints) the sub-optimal moves has changed my thinking about how to play some hands. It does count perfectly every time - unquestionably.My two tiny flaws relate to strategy and one of them (the game doesn't take board position into account) has been noted. My larger concern is the way the program plays hands - always lowest card first (with minor exceptions), refusing to play a card that puts the count at 21 (even if it is a third 7) and not knowing when to "play off" to avoid a run. Plays 6s after 4s on opening lead, opening up a 5-point pegging opportunity for me. Only leads face cards if that is all it has or if it has a 5. If I lead a face card and he plays a 3, for instance, I know he has an 8 (rule of 11 is a good one but too strictly applied). Essentially, the computer will always play its lowest card other than to pair, run, or with Jacks and fives. Makes it easy to outflank and score sizable pegging advantages over the course of a game.

Tmerrickkeller, Aug 26, 2017

Great for learning, and lots of fun.

I’m just learning Cribbage, and this is a great teaching tool. When you overlook something, the “hints” encourage you to actually think about the cards you play instead of just giving you the answer. The same is true for the discards into the Crib. The analyzer shows the probable/possible scores for different combinations of discards without explicitly showing the details — which makes you think about the different possible scoring combinations that might occur depending on the turned card. All of which has really helped me better understand how to make the best use of the cards I am dealt.Also, the visual highlighting of the cards used to make different scoring combinations is great. It moves pretty quickly, which helps you get faster at recognizing different scoring combos (and doesn’t slow down the game), but you can easily repeat it while you are still learning.All in all, a great game at a great price — FREE with small, unobtrusive ads at the bottom of the screen. IMHO, much better than the other “in app purchase” games I also looked at. They tend to add pointless character animations and other useless fluff which add nothing to the game and more often detracts from it.

ToolGuy, May 15, 2022

Good and fair game

The average hand is 8.1, and the average crib is 4.6. After playing nearly 3000 games, my average hand is 8.1, and my average crib is 4.6. This tells me that the game is indeed random, despite what some reviewers suggest. Additionally, it wouldn’t make sense for a developer to have the game tilted in their favor, nobody would want to play. One reviewer collected data on 15 games and claimed this was evidence of collusion since the computers hands averaged much higher than theirs. Imagine tossing a coin 15 times and getting 10 heads/5 tails. Is this evidence the coin is skewed? No! Probabilities occur over a large number of trials.My win percentage at the pro level is 57%. Given all things are fair, I would expect the percentage to be closer to 50%. The difference? Mostly Pegging! The programmer has a flaw that I (wouldn’t say “exploit”) can take an advantage of. Additionally, having the moxie to discard points and playing the probabilities for a favorable hit card.All in all, I enjoy the game a lot!

triple65, Jul 27, 2018

Description

Improve your skills and become a cribbage expert! Cribbage classic has a number of settings that can help you to learn the best move for your situation and offer assistance if it notices that you are making a sub-optimal play. Or just play in fast mode where all counting is done for you and you get to simply focus on discarding and pegging.

By tweaking the settings you can take this app anywhere from a lazy-thoughtless-time-waster game to a skill-sharpening-master-tutorial helping you to crush your next opponent. Statistics are also kept so you can see your average pegging score, your average hand score, and your average crib score! Also shows you a summary of all of the suboptimal plays you made at the end of the game and tracks your error rate over time so you can see yourself improving. Cribbage Classic also has a "Discard Analyzer" bonus feature that can help you decide on the optimal discard to play given a particular cribbage hand. Analyzer shows you the minimum, maximum and average score for each permutation along with an in depth statistical analysis of all possible flip card results.