Just Cribbage 4+

Loved having no ads and played over 100 games. However the computer wins 80%. Noticed the top card always seems to favor the computers hand. They’ve scored 20-24 a couple times almost every game making it impossible to catch up and win. I get skunked constantly. I play irl too and the issue isn’t my strategy, it’s the computer getting favored 99% if the time.

I can only assure you the deck is shuffled randomly before each deal, and the starter card is cut randomly, too. The computer player does NOT know the starter card prior to discarding to the crib, nor does it use any statistical probability calculations.

I have played cribbage all my life, taught by both my parents and grandparents who played classic cribbage all of their lives. I have played 8 games so far and am ahead of the computer, 6 to 2. I am sure that will change as time goes on because random card deals play a big role in how well any player does. There is certainly strategy involved in playing cribbage but if you get a crummy hand, you simply aren’t going to make many points except maybe in pegging during the play. My husband and I play frequently and both of us have experienced periods as long as a year where we continually lose (with few exceptions). Then, things change and the other of us starts losing. The “luck” of the cards truly matters in the game. My only complaint is that the game awards a pony for the “right jack” in the crib, which - as I understand the rules- is only allowed to be counted in the hand. ️Thank you for a truly entertaining game!

Thank you for highlighting the random element in all card games, cribbage included. When a given event does not occur in one hand (or the last 100 hands), it is NOT more likely to occur in the next hand. The governing probability of that event is always the same. I am not familiar with the term "pony" (spell check error?); it sounds like what I know as "Nobs". The app is designed to follow rules of the American Cribbage Congress (www.cribbage.org), which defines Nobs as "Jack of the same suit as the starter card, in either the hand or crib, counts one point".

I enjoyed having a no frills version of Cribbage until the 2.0.1 update both erased the previous scores (games won) and more importantly, changed the color of the dialogue text and numbers on the cribbage board, to white (!) Against a light background, it’s now super hard to read. Made me go find a new app.

I believe the white (instead of black) numbers are related to Dark display mode on your device. Please update to version 2.0.2 and see if text is now black in both Dark and Light mode.