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Excellent game. The game could be improved if the computer program was tweaked to make it tougher. The program continues to take the first card if it needs it or not . Then it quickly discards the first card . The program continues to take cards to make pairs when it should only take cards to make three of a kind . It also does not consistently play defense. It discards its single wild cards all the time . This just feeds the cards it’s opponent needs to the opponent. At the end of the game it does not often go down when it gets to ten points . If it always went down when it reaches 10 points or less it would win more often. There you go. Beat the game at a rate of about 80-%. Rsv

This is an excellent version of the game. More often then not the play is true to the strategy of the game. Sometimes the games get a little "streaky" when you are victimized by a barrage of 12, 14, 16 etc. point hands by the "opponent" and you question the randomness of the cards. But if you play correctly you can hold your own against the "brutal" level and the game is a fun way of passing the time! Recently the game seems to be a little bit more random if not skewed in your favor. Maybe it's my imagination since my winning streaks at the "brutal" level are improving. It's still a lot of fun and a great way to while away the hours but there isn't anything worse than ending the game in the "stink hole".

You will read many reviews on here that say the AI cheats and gives the computer opponent better cards than the player. The truth is all of those reviewers are not as good of cribbage players as they think they are. Even in brutal mode the cards are totally random for both the player and the computer AI. The computer AI in brutal mode is tough but beatable. I consider myself a good but not great cribbage player and in well over 1,000 games I beat the brutal AI opponent about 55 percent of the time. If you like cribbage and want to play against a challenging opponent, this is the game for you. An easy 5 star review.

Don’t plan on winning many cuts, especially if first one ends in tie (have never seen so many ties in initial cut). Card distribution seems a bit favorable to computer, but if you play the pegging very carefully and make some logical gambles, player should be able to win as often as player loses. Maybe I am not as good as I think (playing just under .500 after almost 2000 games against Brutal. Other two levels are way too easy and head to head depends on competition.

An easy to use app for playing cribbage literally anywhere. Three difficulty settings so if you’re learning you can build up to brutal. And what a name for this difficulty setting. Despite the reassurance of the developer, the game cheats. Plain and simple. It is not a random cut by any stretch. You’re constantly trying to battle back from behind and against stacked odds. You’ll average 2 peg points a hand while the computer manages to rack up 15s and 31s on a near-guaranteed basis. Your high hand is usually the computer’s average as they’ll rack up 14+ hands like it’s a bodily function. I’ve even seen the game change the cards I’ve selected. I had a 6678 hand and discarded a 2 and 4. The game gave my 78 to the computer’s crib, and an 8 was cut. I ended up with a 2 hand while the crib the computer stole ended up being a 20.

The interface I hate. Its like playing a bad video poker in a casino. It is fast, too fast and the interface is in my view is hard to follow. I have another cribbage game where the pace is like playing another player, the cards are animated as they are dealt, the board is 3D, it is a more realistic feeling of playing against a real player. You have a moment to catch up between deals. but the randomness of the deal is very suspect, there are just way too many ‘winning’ hands. This game I find myself always looking around as to what just happen. I don’t like the screen layout or the pace of play. It has the programming done right I just hate the screen layout. Maybe if I play it more I might get use to the interface, but I am not sure. Plus the board is 2D and the pegs are a bad 3D, so I find it hard to track. So even though the dealing is more like a real deck, if find myself playing the other game because it plays at a more pleasant pace.

Updated Update: this game has become too unreal for enjoyment. I am going to seek another option. Name for 'advanced' changed to 'brutal' but that belies what the game is. The game is unrealistic and tests not one's ability to play the game but one's tolerance for the computer receiving unbelievably good hands a non-randomly measured percent of the time. Frankly, 'brutal' really means 'brutally out of touch with reality'. And it seems to be getting worse. Frankly, it is taking the fun out of playing. While I enjoy playing this App a lot, at the advanced level it does not come close to reality. Just be prepared to lose 60% of the games regardless how well you are doing as the app will consistently catch 12, 14, 16 and more points in hand and juicy cribs as well while you scrounge out your best with crappola hands. Skill plays a part in cribbage but nowhere near as much as luck and the app has odds defying luck. "Advanced" should have to do with knowledge and skill. Cribbage depends A LOT on the cards one is dealt. At the Advanced level, Cribbage Pro takes a significant detour from reality. Better and more realistic randomizing of the cards to represent reality would make it more enjoyable. I do think it is the best of the cribbage apps I have tried but it just does not come close to reality and that is a shame.

There needs to be a way to boot a player who has exceeded their time limit and been inactive for more than a few minutes. It’s too easy for people to pad their stats in multiplayer by joining a game and then just not doing anything forcing you to either wait a really long time or forfeit the game. That’s not fair that you should have to forfeit if they’re deliberately not playing. And you can’t rate them if you forfeit so you only see good ratings because of it. Tonight I had a guy pull this and I wanted to see how long it would take. It tried disconnecting him after 20 minutes but he just rejoined and started over. I finally proved more stubborn than him after another 5 minutes, but I have the time to do that right now. Most people don’t. Edit (response to developer response): I absolutely have a time limit set. I set the limit for 15 seconds. It does not boot them but just gives a message that the player has exceeded their time limit. But it doesn’t end the game or do anything but give me a guide to rate them as slow/distracted. The example I gave was a multiplayer game with a 15 second time limit and it was still 25 minutes of nothing.

I used to think this was a good cribbage app. I like how you can count your own points and enable muggins to make the game extra challenging. However, lately it seems like the game purposely gives the computer really good hands. The kinds of hands both the computer and player used to get were usually pretty even, making it possible to beat the computer if you know how to play and count your cards correctly. However, now the computer constantly gets 12-20 point hands, while I'm struggling to make 6-8 point hands. Plus, I get 0 point cribs several times a game, while that happens maybe once a game to the computer. And that's a big maybe. It would be one thing if this sort of thing happened every once in awhile to the computer. But when it happens game after game, I don't think it's just that the computer is really lucky. It feels like the computer is dealt really good hands on purpose. There's got to be a balance. If either the computer or the player gets really good hands all the time, it's not fun to play anymore since there's no real competition. I've used this app for years, but if this keeps on happening, I might switch to an app that deals more fairly than this one has been lately.

I agree with Glickster49's review but will also add that the unrealistic hands happen even in multiplayer mode. I've studied the odds (published by mathematicians) of scores in the playing hand and in the crib and the app consistently contradicts what professionals have taken the time to calculate mathematically. I also noticed in single player mode, the app strategically tends to catch up toward the end of the game and when it's the player's crib so even if you have a hand that puts you out, you don't get to count first. Being dealt a playing hand and/or crib with 0 score is not likely. Just about every hand will score at least 2 but not with this app. I also don't care for the "Quit" option in multiplayer. If a player quits, they lose rank but some players force a quit by setting their game to unlimited time then not playing at all. My friends and I play with odds in mind at all times so that gaining a 20 point lead is considered a win no matter where on the board we are. Because the odds of a come back from such a deficit is unlikely and to be honest, this game is only fun when it's close. A one sided game is pointless.

Used to be good. Since updating the game, it lost it’s appeal. Would rather play solo TicTacToe against myself than subject myself to this misery. The game is not fun anymore and I’ll try to find a different Cribbage app that is enjoyable. Used to be fair to both sides: now even if you win it’s not satisfying as the “program” picks winners way too lopsided now. The games are rarely close at any level and seem to always result in lopsided victories! I wish that I’d never updated it! The ads are ridiculous, ranging from political to locking in on other pages and making it impossible to go on to any other application without restarting the iPad. After the third time of being locked into an endless loop of games sending you to the Apple Store I’ve decided to write a review so others will know what this app has become. Cribbage pro no longer is any fun: just frustration whether winning or losing, or just locked in an endless advertising loop. I buy almost all of my apps and fully support the developers but am too afraid of what the app would be like given the de elopes history of making the app worse. This app has gone steadily downhill but I would gladly pay twice what they charge for an early version of this even with the old ads!!!!!

On “Brutal” mode, the computer opponent will sometimes steal your crib points. Example: It was my deal. In my crib was a flush of four for four points. I scored the four points, but when I submitted the score, the game pegged the points for the computer opponent. I initially thought that I was just “going crazy” or not paying close enough attention or I just rushed through it and didn’t see it correctly. After the match, I hit the “Deja Vú” button to replay the game. I paid particular attention to that one hand. And sure enough it scored the points for the computer opponent, just this time it scored 2 for the computer and 2 for me. I still should have had all four. I replayed the game several times, and each time, on that deal, some, if not all, of my crib points went to to computer opponent. I have played different matches since then. While it doesn’t happen every match, it happens often enough to make this game infuriating, especially on close matches where those points were the difference between a win and a loss. And, there is not way to “mug” the points back to you or to correct the score.

For starters the algorithm used is almost predictable to the letter or number in this case. I’d say you lose roughly 7/10 games that you lose the deal. If you have a win streak, you are guaranteed to have an immediate lose streak. For example, if you skunk a player two games in a row, you will almost immediately lose two games by skunk or very close to. The predictability and unrealistic card outcomes ruins the fun. I have not analyzed the exact outcomes but I guarantee if you track your wins/loses, deals, and cards dealt during a streak you will notice the irregularities. When on a losing streak you are continuously dealt impossible hands, 4477J5, opponents crib. It’s just unrealistic and definitely not random in anyway. If you have a bad streak I suggest immediately stop playing and the game usually resets. All in all if you don’t care about random or realistic deals you’ll probably enjoy this game. For me personally I’m looking for an alternative.

This site is so fixed unless you purchase it. I have played crib all over the country and in many tournaments and when I got to a 50 rating on this site, everything came to a screeching halt. I lost 27 straight games with 25/27 never having a hand over 8 and with no 5's. The odds of that are almost nill. Of course they denied the allegation but it is literally impossible to receive so many bad hands for so many games unless it is programmed. Stay away (or don't be any good). Of course the developer denies this is fixed. I just want the reader to know that, since i originally poster, I have lost 18 straight games. What a joke. I have won cribbage tournaments all over the country and the only possible way I could lose this many games is if the cards are fixed. Stay away- takes all the fun out if it.