★★★★★ Cute and instructional though unfair
Sat Aug 16 2025 jplonghornVery cute! I love my personalized “Papa”—looks a lot like he did. My favorite is when Grandpa falls asleep waiting for you, and when you wake him up, he says “I was just having the best dream that I was spending time with my favorite person!” That brought a tear to my eye! The hints and tips from Grandpa are helpful. It’s definitely not for the purpose of trying to win, because the cards are 90% dealt in favor of Grandpa – but what’re you gonna do. Let the sweet old man have his last few wins in life, and enjoy the lessons. Even when Grandpa gets his astounding 16-point hands (which he often does, while you count your single pair), it is a learning experience to watch him count his score. And if you forget something when counting yours, he helpfully reminds you. Too cute. Great for beginners and for a quick meetup with Papa. (The cell phone interface to “call Grandpa” to play is super cute.)
★★★★★ Frustrating game play. If you play cribbage with real people do not play this game!
Tue May 28 2019 DONeill76The game play is abhorrent. The developers should’ve paid as much attention to the play as they did to the aesthetics. In no human game of cribbage have I ever witnessed such skewed game play. I just watched my opponent, through three full games, get only one hand under 10 points, while I had more than a dozen hands dealt with no more than 4 possible points. During play my opponent will, during one hand, play brilliantly, always having the pair or the third of a kind. Then, on the next hand they will inexplicably lay down a 5 to start, all while having multiple other, less dangerous, options available. It’s frustrating playing against what is so obviously a poorly constructed algorithm. Get it together. Let’s also mention the issue with runs during the play. There has never been a case where the opponent has not had a answer to a run card. Literally never. If I start the play and lay down a two, he then lays down a three, and then if I lay down a four, he will always have a three or five. What’s worse is that this continues. If I then lay down an appropriate card to continue the run, he will, without fail, respond with the appropriate run card. He never cannot match the run. It only ends when either I cannot complete the run or we approach 31. I could go on, but Jesus. Just fix it.
★★★★★ Perfect! Want more like this!
Fri Nov 10 2017 Soup-DragonWonder app! Does exactly what it says on the tin. For a small price you get a clean looking game with no adverts. Highly customizable grandpas teach you to play cribbage and improve your game.
There is a tutorial grandpa who teaches you cribbage, then you get to make your own grandpas to play with.
I've built three: Grandpa Walton a beginner cribbage player; Grandpa Leonard (who looks just like my own late grandpa). An intermediate player; and grandpa Einstein an expert. You can even give them personality traits, so Grandpa Leonard is silly and tells jokes very like my own grandpa, while I made Grandpa Einstein intelligent and serious and he keeps talking about looking into the abyss or the probability of cribbage hands.
The only flaw is the algorithm might slight skew the cards grandpas with different levels of skill get dealt. It is not the only difference, Grandpa Walton definitely plays his hands badly too.
Love this game, made me very nostalgic for my grandpa and fun to play against the Einstein-lookalike I created. Would love other versions. I used to play gin rummy and Whist with my grandpa. Would also be fun to play board games like snakes and ladders or chess with grandpa. And don't forget about Grandma!
★★★★★ I wish the deals were random and not weighted
Fri Dec 26 2025 Orla420TLDR: The AI deals non random hands to give the illusion of various difficulties.
I’ve played cribbage for 20+ years and this used to be my favorite app on my phone. Recently I’ve been playing cribbage more consistently both irl and on this app. I started to feel frustrated when playing against grandpa, that something was off compared to what I was expecting. It felt like no matter what you could never get ahead, that grandpa kept getting especially lucky.
Well I decided to run a few tests to see if I was just making things up. I started playing cribbage on a different app and didn’t experience any of these feelings, the game felt fair. Then I came back to this app and started tracking points for hands. Grandpa got high scoring hands a lot more often than I did and a lot more often than either player did on the other cribbage app. Then I put the difficulty to the lowest setting. I suddenly started getting incredible hands consistently! I would then start to discard to the crib the cards that would make my hand the worst, the flip would then be a card that made my hand great. If I started to not score my hand Grandpa’s hand would then get worse.
After that I just deleted the game and then came here to write my first app review in a decade. If you all ever put in a fair randomization where the skill level changes instead of weighting the deal I’ll be back as I love the aesthetic and feel of the gameplay compared to other apps.
★★★★★ Solid Title, But A Few Kinks...
Sat Feb 24 2018 A Non-Edgy Indie GamerI’ve had this game for nearly a year and usually had no complaints—there’s no goatees or full beards for your grandpa, but I can usually make that work. The gameplay is solid and intuitive, allowing you to watch how your grandpa scores and ask him for help—but thankfully it also allows you to skip that if you’re in a rush and Grandpa’s got a 14-point-hand. In short, this game does a great job of teaching you Cribbage.
However, I did notice a major glitch recently—you cannot win when placing down cards at the beginning. I was one point away from victory, with one card in my hand. Grandpa played a nine, and lo and behold that was my card! I played it, my score moved to 121, and then nothing happened! I tapped on Grandpa, and he simply told me to select a card from my now-empty hand. I’d appreciate it if this was fixed.
★★★★★ A Great Intro to Crib
Sat Jan 20 2024 loowee23I’ll admit that I had this game downloaded and ready for QUITE a while, but I finally took the plunge recently…
…And I regret having lost so many opportunities to have an enjoyable game of Cribbage during downtimes. Never having delved into the rules, the whole pegboard thing had me staying on the sidelines, but now I have no idea why I let it get to me.
This is an enjoyable experience. If you feel your opponent is too lucky (experienced), just reroll your gramps into one that doesn’t have as much xp in this game!
Love everything about this.
Know it’s been a few years since the last update, but everything still seems to be working just fine.
★★★★★ Makes me feel like Papa is still here
Thu Dec 28 2023 venesVSI was 16 when my Papa passed. Probably 10 when he tried to teach me cribbage. It was too confusing for me at the time. When I learned to love cribbage in young adulthood, I couldn’t shake the guilt over never playing with Papa.
Then I found this game. I know it’s weird, but it helps me remember him and feel close to him. You can even customize your grandpa’s characteristics, and “sore loser” is an option. Papa used to say, “You show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.”
This game really feels like a little piece of our relationship that I wasn’t patient enough to experience in childhood, and that means so much to me.
★★★★★ Adorable and genuine!
Thu Jun 28 2018 Sporky16I never got to play cribbage with my real Grandpa, but he and my dad used to play Penny-a-point, and my dad taught me. It’s one of my favorite games and it’s hard to find people to play with! Cribbage with Grandpas satisfies all my cribbage playing desires! And it’s almost like playing with my real grandpa since I can customize a grandpa to look however I want, and choose his personality traits! Gameplay is lovely, you have to score your own cards each hand, and peg smartly or Grandpa will win! He’s nice enough to point out when you may have missed points in a hand, but he lets you figure out what you’ve missed on your own. My new favorite app by far! ❤️
