I'm a bit of a Cribbage player. I play Cribbage at pro level and I actually got a 1 in 15,028 hand. Being 1 point short of the maximum. Just thought I would mention it!
Yup, all you needed was a Jack up to get your nob, I have been playing cribbage for 40 years,and have never got a 29. A few 28's over years.
It's a good game, but they should have made the scoring different when it was made, now it is too late. Most of the points come with the cards you are dealt, and not the play itself. They should have made less in the cards, and more in the play. Doesn't matter how good you are, if I get 16 hands, and you get 4's, I'm going to win.
Great game caused more rows in our family than politics and religion put together! Dad and grandad playing each other was a bloodsport!
I play the game, played since the 60's, I know what pegging is. But you cannot keep up the pegging, if I am getting high point hands. You will very seldom peg 12 points. You can easily deal me 12 or 16 points.
That's the way the game works. Too many points in the dealt hand. Not enough in the pegging. It turns into a luck game.
I've e-mailed the guy that wrote the app. It plays a pattern but not tactically. Then the suboptimal analysis at the end pulls you up for not playing a certain card but playing that card would give away more points. For example, you have a Queen King left, the app has two cards which are both Kings and unless it has a 5, it plays it's lowest card, so it plays a King. So you know it has a second King so if I play a King for 2 points, it earns 6. So I play the Queen, it plays it's second King and earns 1 point. I play my last card for 1 point but at the end, it says I didn't play to the optimum.
I always wanted to learn how to play this. Well by always I mean since this year. Is it challenging and is it different than Bridge....which I also don't know how to play.
Cribbage is straight forward, just play cards earning points. First one to or over 121 points wins. As time goes by, it gets easier to count up the points and becomes second nature. I"be never played Bridge or even looked at the game so I've no idea.
