Cribbage GC

GameClubUSA.com

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About this game

Play cribbage, compete and chat online with real players - hundreds of players from all over the world at all hours!
High quality and easy-to-use cribbage board, cards and fast play.
Cribbage GC is a social gaming platform where cribbage players from all corners of the planet come together to play this popular board game.

Cribbage GC features one-on-one cribbage games, multiplayer cribbage tournaments and multiple game variations.
Cribbage GC supports tournaments from both GameClubUSA.com and cribbage.org ACC (American Cribbage Congress)

If you had an internet disconnection, Cribbage GC will reconnect you. Cribbage Club Online will play fine with either WIFI or any cellular connection - even a 3G connection.

Six Card Cribbage is a two-player game of skill that uses a standard 52 card pack. The goal is to be the first to score 121 points over several deals. Points are scored for card combinations that occur during the play or in a player's hand or in the crib -- the cards discarded before the play.

Five Card Cribbage variation is an older traditional version that is still popular in England. 5 card Cribbage differs from the more modern 6 card cribbage by the number of cards in hand (initially 5) and by the score to play - usually it is played to 61 points.

Paul Rice of Wells, ME who plays in US national cribbage tournaments says that in cribbage "75 percent or more" depends on the skill of the player. Per Paul Rice: "in cribbage, every card you play and every card your opponent plays, you're trying to throw a curve ball in there"... "you can be dealt a gosh-awful hand and if you play it right, you can advance up the board."

Cribbage GC uses a fast cribbage central server from GameClubUSA.com supporting different cribbage clients in addition to Android-based cribbage client.

Ratings and reviews

The mechanics for this game are awesome - allowing the use of showing statistics is something I haven't seen in any other cribbage game out there. The ability to choose deck design and playing field can make each session unique. One thing that would make this perfect? If a player quits in the middle of the game, give the other player the win. It seems that some quit so as to not tarnish their win/lose ratio, and that's frustrating. If you've come to play, play until the end!

If a much higher rated player quits and leaves the table in the middle of a game, they are given the win, you get the loss, and you drop in points. It's hard to get a win and increase your points when this consistently keeps happening. Also, you can get blocked from tables with no explanations. I try to play much higher rated players on a table, and they don't accept to start a game, i have to leave the table. When i try later to go back to table, I'm blocked.

It's very fun to play, but very streaky. It's almost as if the algorithm for dealt cards goes haywire from time to time. I recently lost eight games in a row by 40 or more points. That seems like a statistical improbability, but it has happened to me many times over the years I've been playing on this app. On the flip side, there are also winning streaks that seem outside the realm of probability, but they aren't usually as long as the losing streaks.