Cross Cribbage

Mitchell May

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Cribbage meets strategy board game.

Cross Cribbage transforms classic cribbage into a fresh, tactical experience played on a 5x5 grid. Instead of scoring traditional pegging hands, players take turns placing cards to build cribbage “hands” across rows and columns. One player scores the rows, the other scores the columns.

Every placement matters. You’re building your own scoring opportunities while blocking your opponent’s best plays. It feels familiar, yet completely new—a blend of cribbage, strategy, and puzzle-solving.

🃏 How It Works

• Each turn, you place a card from your hand onto an empty space
• The board fills into 25 cards total, forming cribbage hands in all rows and columns
• One player controls scoring for all horizontal hands, the other for all vertical hands
• If a player is the dealer for the round, they also score the shaded diagonal crib hand
• Standard cribbage scoring applies: 15s, pairs, runs, and flushes
• When the board is full, all hands are scored

🎯 What Makes It Unique

✔ Strategic card placement – every move affects multiple hands
✔ Think ahead on offense and defense
✔ A blend of cribbage, spatial strategy, and light puzzle play
✔ Quick to learn, endlessly replayable

🎮 Game Modes

• Play Online – Invite a friend or play someone new
• Local Pass & Play – Share a device with someone nearby
• Single Player – Challenge the computer with multiple difficulty levels

✨ Features

• Beautiful wood-themed board and classic playing cards
• Smart scoring visuals and hand breakdowns
• Interactive tutorial to learn how to play
• Works great on phones and tablets

🏆 Win Conditions

The game ends when a player reaches 121 points—or if both exceed 121 in the same round, the higher score wins.

Cross Cribbage is easy to learn if you already know cribbage, and a fun way to discover cribbage if you’ve never played before. Perfect for fans of cribbage, card strategy games, puzzles, or cerebral two-player challenges.

Download now and play cribbage like you’ve never played it before!

Ratings and reviews

One of my favorite games to play on a board, but often this game seems unrealistic. I play the one person game and at the high level but often the computer will make the worst play on the board. While other times if there is only one card that can come up that can help them the most it's there!? I'm at 91% for 5-6 hundred games, I'm not that good! But I'm sure it's hard to program random plays???

this game used to be very good - responsive play turns, fast scoring, etc. the latest update looks like they tried to introduce AI, but they made some really bad changes: - removed the exit menu button so you cannot easily leave the game - if you want to see your score for a singke round, you have to painfully watch a slow motion tabulation of all the row/column scores - the accept/cancel buttons for each card placement is now overplayed on the cards and they are to small.

Love the app. I love the game. Is it possible to make an online lobby for multi-player? Also, I noticed it's sometimes laggy, and after a while, it closes. I have a samsung galaxy s25 ultra and my cache is always clean for reference. Again, love the app, and have had quite a few friends download it.

What’s new

Minor bugfixes