Cribbage Classic vs American Mahjong Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cribbage Classic
Master the card game of cribbage with this app. It offers adjustable assistance levels, from a casual time-waster to a skill-sharpening tutorial. Track your progress with detailed statistics and analyze optimal discards.
- Adjustable assistance levels
- Fast play mode with automatic counting
- Detailed game statistics
- Suboptimal play summary
- Discard Analyzer with statistical analysis
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Improve your skills and become a cribbage expert! Cribbage classic has a number of settings that can help you to learn the best move for your situation and offer assistance if it notices that you are making a sub-optimal play. Or just play in fast mode where all counting is done for you and you get to simply focus on discarding and pegging. By tweaking the settings you can take this app anywhere from a lazy-thoughtless-time-waster game to a skill-sharpening-master-tutorial helping you to crush your next opponent. Statistics are also kept so you can see your average pegging score, your average hand score, and your average crib score! Also shows you a summary of all of the suboptimal plays you made at the end of the game and tracks your error rate over time so you can see yourself improving. Cribbage Classic also has a "Discard Analyzer" bonus feature that can help you decide on the optimal discard to play given a particular cribbage hand. Analyzer shows you the minimum, maximum and average score for each permutation along with an in depth statistical analysis of all possible flip card results.
American Mahjong Practice
Practice American Mahjong with a large tile design optimized for mobile screens. Learn the 2026 card with suggested hands, validation tools, and progress tracking. Play offline solo against bots or with custom rules.
- Large tiles and font option
- 2026 card practice
- Suggested hands with overlap analysis
- Hand validation and corrections
- Progress tracking and stats
- Offline play
- Play against bots or solo
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The secret to great Mahjong? Play more games. Play every hand to completion and watch how tile choices create winning hands. Ready for a challenge? Play the daily challenge hand against other players, or enable opponent bots and compete. Try 2018 hands for free or purchase the monthly subscription or purchase 2026 hands one-time. The monthly subscription includes the new hands every year. The new Daily Challenge Hands and Leaderboard are included with the monthly subscription and 2026 hands one-time purchase. Mahjong Practice rethinks mahjong for mobile, with a design that takes full advantage of small screens. Play fun, quick games offline, anywhere, anytime. No internet connection needed. This is the best way to learn the 2026 card. Suggested Hands: All possible hand combinations are evaluated and sorted by the highest matching tile count. Play one of these hands or any hand you want. See the combinations of hands with the most overlapping tiles. Develop your strategies selecting hands. Large Tiles and Large Tile Font Option: Tiles are large. Enable the Large Tile Font option to make the tiles even easier to read. Hand Validations and Corrections: See the closest matching pattern when you declare an unknown pattern. Tips help beginning players. Hand Stats: Track hands completed and your progress on the NMJL card. Hand Filters: Select the sections you like to play the most. Hide sections to focus on any given section. Play the whole card. Play Against Bots or Solo: When playing solo, the opponent bots play valid patterns and exchange jokers but do not declare Mahjong. Play until you declare Mahjong or the wall is empty in solo mode. Go to Settings to enable bots that win to practice defense. Advanced Practice Features: Try different strategies with Replay and Undo. Enable Open Play to disable NMJL rules and play by your own House Rules. This is the Original American Mahjong App, 10 Years in the making. Contact support@eightbam.com for help at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cribbage Classic at none against American Mahjong Practice's 8. American Mahjong Practice's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 9 months). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. American Mahjong Practice sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Cribbage Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.
American Mahjong Practice holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31K and 23K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Cribbage Classic's written reviews are positive against 93% of American Mahjong Practice's.
Cribbage Classic ships an update every 9 months, American Mahjong Practice every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Cribbage Classic | American Mahjong Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31K ratings) | 4.9 (23K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31K — better | 23K |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #154 | #43 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Eight Bam LLC |
Customer experience
Cribbage Classic
American Mahjong Practice
User reviews
Cribbage Classic
From 31K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Fast gameplay
- 💡 Helpful hints and analysis
- 🚀 Smooth animations
- 👍 Clear scoring and instructions
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unrealistic card deals and hands
- 🐛 Computer opponent gets unfair advantage
- 🐛 Inconsistent or incorrect scoring
- 🐛 Pegging strategy not optimal
- 🐛 Discard analysis not always accurate
American Mahjong Practice
From 23K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app to learn with
- 👍 Excellent fun game
- 👍 Beginners favorite
- 👍 Great from beginners to pros!
- 👍 BEST way to learn the new card!
Room to improve
- 🐛 Pretty good, but needs improvement
- 🐛 Issues w app
- 🐛 Taken away the aha moment
- 🐛 Selecting hands
- 🐛 Mah Jongg
Bugs and requests
Cribbage Classic
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional freezing or crashing
- Incorrect counting of flushes
- Inability to recover from misplayed cards
Requested features
4 requests- Option to view opponent's hand and statistics
- Ability to save and resume games
- More customization options for the board and cards
- Multiplayer mode to play against other users
American Mahjong Practice
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tile placement issues
- Incorrect win count tracking
- Upside down orientation
- Discarding issues
Requested features
4 requests- Multiplayer mode
- Ability to see other players' hands
- Option to hide suggested hands
- Ability to switch discard pile location
In-app purchases
Cribbage Classic
No in-app purchases
American Mahjong Practice
- Monthly Access All Features$3.991 Month
- 2025 Hands. All Features$3.99
- Hands 2024$3.99
- 2024 Hands, All Features$3.99
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- 2023 Hands, All Features$4.99
- 2022 Access All Features$6.99
- 2022 Access All Features B$6.99
- 2026 Hands, All Features$17.99
Questions
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