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Cribbage Pro
Fuller Systems, Inc. · 59,664 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 31 negative reviews
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1
"game"
18 negative reviews mention this · 58% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Brutal is rigged!. Ok, second day in a row, third day this week, first three hands for brutal to start a game, 12,12,and 14! then, I can’t make this stuff up, next game, right after the last one I posted about, first four hands, no crib, 12, 20, 11, and 12 ag…" - GearsHouse
2
"hands"
9 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Brutal is rigged!. Ok, second day in a row, third day this week, first three hands for brutal to start a game, 12,12,and 14! then, I can’t make this stuff up, next game, right after the last one I posted about, first four hands, no crib, 12, 20, 11, and 12 ag…" - GearsHouse
3
"cards"
8 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but statistical anomolies. Good game. Played for a few weeks using the brutal level. Turns out brutal has nothing to do with skill but unrealistic hand distributions. Examples: computer scores of >20 fives times in a row? Hands identical in same game with compute…" - Opium Mother
4
"hand"
7 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Brutal is rigged!. Ok, second day in a row, third day this week, first three hands for brutal to start a game, 12,12,and 14! then, I can’t make this stuff up, next game, right after the last one I posted about, first four hands, no crib, 12, 20, 11, and 12 ag…" - GearsHouse
5
"play"
7 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but statistical anomolies. Good game. Played for a few weeks using the brutal level. Turns out brutal has nothing to do with skill but unrealistic hand distributions. Examples: computer scores of >20 fives times in a row? Hands identical in same game with compute…" - Opium Mother
6
"played"
6 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but statistical anomolies. Good game. Played for a few weeks using the brutal level. Turns out brutal has nothing to do with skill but unrealistic hand distributions. Examples: computer scores of >20 fives times in a row? Hands identical in same game with compute…" - Opium Mother
7
"computer"
6 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but statistical anomolies. Good game. Played for a few weeks using the brutal level. Turns out brutal has nothing to do with skill but unrealistic hand distributions. Examples: computer scores of >20 fives times in a row? Hands identical in same game with compute…" - Opium Mother
8
"real"
6 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but statistical anomolies. Good game. Played for a few weeks using the brutal level. Turns out brutal has nothing to do with skill but unrealistic hand distributions. Examples: computer scores of >20 fives times in a row? Hands identical in same game with compute…" - Opium Mother
9
"cribbage"
6 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Video poker cribbage without the flash. A) If you love dive bar video poker where the rules are the same as real life and it resembles poker but you know and can see that every single hand is being manipulated by the system/computer/app, then you’ll love this version of cribbage.…" - matt.a.m
10
"crib"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Brutal is rigged!. Ok, second day in a row, third day this week, first three hands for brutal to start a game, 12,12,and 14! then, I can’t make this stuff up, next game, right after the last one I posted about, first four hands, no crib, 12, 20, 11, and 12 ag…" - GearsHouse
11
"unrealistic"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but statistical anomolies. Good game. Played for a few weeks using the brutal level. Turns out brutal has nothing to do with skill but unrealistic hand distributions. Examples: computer scores of >20 fives times in a row? Hands identical in same game with compute…" - Opium Mother
12
"every"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads Will Drive You Crazy. Long ads after every game take all the fun away from the game. No way to skip or end ads." - Spyguy003
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Brutal is rigged!
Ok, second day in a row, third day this week, first three hands for brutal to start a game, 12,12,and 14! then, I can’t make this stuff up, next game, right after the last one I posted about, first four hands, no crib, 12, 20, 11, and 12 again!!!!!!!! developers have no spine, they don’t have the balls to reply, look at the reviews, only reply to positive reviews, look at the date on the last reply to a negative review, the odds of first three hands having over 12 points is 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 20,000 from their own sight, yet I have four games in one week, two in a row where this occurred, developers are spineless and clueless! there is my clear and empirical evidence! Developers won’t have the balls to reply! Anything they say will be garbage, they just want to keep the high rating. Jack offs!
This game has so many connection issues
This game constantly has connectivity issues. You can’t even get thru one game. Total garbage. Don’t download I could get a negative one star I would.
Ads Will Drive You Crazy
Long ads after every game take all the fun away from the game. No way to skip or end ads.
Use to be good
I’ve had this app for years and loved it but now you’re held captive by ads after every game. I’ll be deleting this app now.
Cards are not realistic and cannot find a game update 2
The cards are not realistic. It seems the winner is determined by the first deal. Real deals do not work out like this. Just wish the app deems you to be the winner.
Update: Change to a 1 star (would give it 1/2 if I could). It now doesn’t allow you to get a competitive game because they “penalize” you if you miss a week of playing.
Update 2: evidently winning approximately 50% (250 out of 510) equals a “rough losing record” for competitive matches. Still cannot find a game and the cards are unrealistic and statistically impossible.
Update: Change to a 1 star (would give it 1/2 if I could). It now doesn’t allow you to get a competitive game because they “penalize” you if you miss a week of playing.
Update 2: evidently winning approximately 50% (250 out of 510) equals a “rough losing record” for competitive matches. Still cannot find a game and the cards are unrealistic and statistically impossible.
Video poker cribbage without the flash
A) If you love dive bar video poker where the rules are the same as real life and it resembles poker but you know and can see that every single hand is being manipulated by the system/computer/app, then you’ll love this version of cribbage.
B) Devs keep saying their code doesn’t manipulate the hands, but you won’t need a day of playing to see that is clearly not true. Anyone who has ever played real cribbage knows there aren’t 6 or 8 12+ point hands every round. Download it and see for yourself.
C) 2-star (instead of one) was because no matter how grossly inaccurate and twisted this is from real hands of cribbage, I still often came back, mostly for a laugh, but…
D) Devs somehow got my previous 2-star removed. Weird. I’ll be lowering my review to 1-star and deleting app for good because of that. I’m positive I’m not the only one with the same issue with this app, so there is zero chance this is a 4.7-star app. Shady.
B) Devs keep saying their code doesn’t manipulate the hands, but you won’t need a day of playing to see that is clearly not true. Anyone who has ever played real cribbage knows there aren’t 6 or 8 12+ point hands every round. Download it and see for yourself.
C) 2-star (instead of one) was because no matter how grossly inaccurate and twisted this is from real hands of cribbage, I still often came back, mostly for a laugh, but…
D) Devs somehow got my previous 2-star removed. Weird. I’ll be lowering my review to 1-star and deleting app for good because of that. I’m positive I’m not the only one with the same issue with this app, so there is zero chance this is a 4.7-star app. Shady.
Used to be fun
This game was very enjoyable until in the middle of games, they started advertising. And not just quick ads. They last several minutes. I will no longer play this game just because in the MIDDLE of a game, they insert ads! No thanks! DONE!
Sexually explicit
This app contains sexually explicit advertisements.
G3
Too many ads
Rigged
Game is rigged…unrealistic hands…terrible
Game is rigged
Increasing the difficulty only increases the cheating. I can predict what cards the bot has because it’s always the perfect hand for whatever I have.
This is not real.
This is not fun to play if you've played crib with real cards. Most hands are huge. It is a ridiculous waste of time.
Excessive advertising
Somehow the corporate takeover of this game has infected it with extremely excessive advertising, stay away unless you enjoy watching ridiculously long redundant commercials
More ads than games.
If you don’t mind weeding through seemingly endless ads for other games, this is a good app to download. If you want something where you can actually play, skip this.
Spam’s ad with no X
You have to quit the app to get out of advertisement’s back and forth to App Store, there is no X or close button even after the ad is done. Then you sometimes reopen to another ad.
Not a random deal
I can go for ten or twelve hands and never get a 5. Also depending on what you put in the opponent’s crib you can almost determine the turn over card.
Ad City
This was a good app up until recently where you are now forced to watch long ads
Not real life cribbage
The only thing this app has over others is the graphic interface. It’s beautiful in terms of graphic interface and ease of use. Beyond that, it is so streaky and predictable in both CPU opponents and in what cards will be dealt to other live opponents, that it becomes almost unplayable.
Terrible
Your app is hot garbage. Zero probability your RNG is simulating a fair and equitable game of cribbage. There is no way. Articulating exactly what the issue are would take a dissertation in statistical probabilities. Imagine every bizarre anomalous outcome happening over and over and over. Not fun.
Cancelled.
Cancelled.
Multi Player Challenge Not Working
Was really pleased with this app until the Multi Player Challenge stopped working just over a week ago.
This is not real cribbage.
This is not real cribbage, and the developer admits that. The game you play at home, the cards you shuffle, will never come out the way the cards are dealt in this game with its “true” random shuffle. Ergo, the cards you get in this game are no way reflective of the realty of the cards dealt in the game you play with your friends or at club. In a real game a person may get a few double runs maybe a twelve pointer. With this game your opponent, whether human or computer, will always get at least one hand of twelve or more. Always. I’ve lost more games here when my opponent gets 12 or more in their last hand in the three months I’ve played then in 20 years at club.
Good but statistical anomolies
Good game. Played for a few weeks using the brutal level. Turns out brutal has nothing to do with skill but unrealistic hand distributions. Examples: computer scores of >20 fives times in a row? Hands identical in same game with computer as dealer (so computer pair-wise pegs scores are unstoppable). Player hands rarely get three tens with a five and hands ‘forced’ to drop 5’s in computer crib due to preferable high runs. Computer dealt str8 flushes e.g., with 456 too often. And strange too frequent ‘come from behind’ (like > 30-40 pts; 90 to 55 for example) wins for computer by shutting out player in hand and crib. Challenges are great but I thought brutal would be more on par with expert level play with normal cards, not one in a million statistically unreal hands.
Horrible
Way too many ads! Computer pegging is predictable, computer always seems to have the right card! The “Brutal” level is also predictable in that when the computer deals it has a spectacular hand 90% of the time. Very disappointing!
Good except…
There is no way this game is fair. The competitive match making is ridiculous. I’ve played over ten matches and haven’t and haven’t won one. My win percentage is in the 20s. Which doesn’t even make sense when mugging isn’t involved. Any real player would be around 50% in win percentage. Definitely not fair play.
Bad Habits
Not really playable as cribbage. It creates bad habits in anticipation of the app generating sequential cards.
Excellent time wasting if you’re in an airport or toilet or both !
Excellent time wasting if you’re in an airport or toilet or both !
To many adds
The game’s are good but you have to wait for long adds between. Sad
App overrides sound setting
This app overrides the sound settings with the adds, which is against app protocols for Apple. I'm reporting this
Horrible ads
The game is pretty straight forward and fun to play. Unfortunately after one game you get ads that do not allow you to exit them and you end up starting at an ad for 5 min. I understand the need to make money but these ads are the worse I have dealt with close to dumping this game.
Limited variety
I love cribbage, and this interface has its pluses and minuses. What is great: card layout at start of game, layout during pegging, a summarization of scoring at the end of each hand, the possibility of hints that could be helpful when learning. What has possibility for evolving into greatness: presentation of scoring during pegging would be easier to read if it were all done centrally maybe with arrows up or down or a color code in lieu of arrows, a better description of hints as to why such cards are chosen for discard based on which player receives the crib-this being much more helpful and inviting to newer players, and most importantly VARIETY IS NEEDED as I have played this for two weeks daily 2-4 hands at most and I have already repeatedly seen the exact same deal of the cards. This makes my brain a bit bored, is certainly less likely to improve my game, and I imagine I will remove the app because of the last two.
Unrealistic hands
Last minute bad beats? If you pay close attention you can tell the computer has shifted the game. The bad beats are cool when it happens to benefit you, but very unrealistic.
Opinion
Think it too easy for the computer to cheat. Too many leads with the computer miraculously hitting a 24 hand to catch up. Like playing but the huge computer hands every game.. unrealistic
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)