Comparison

Cribbage Classic vs Muggins

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Adjustable assistance levels
  • Fast play mode with automatic counting
  • Detailed game statistics
  • Suboptimal play summary
  • Discard Analyzer with statistical analysis
Features
Currently charting
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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.

About

Muggins

This digital cribbage board allows you to play with real cards and track scores on your device. Simply lay your phone or tablet flat, use the on-screen pegs, and race to 121 points. Customize your board with various themes.

Highlights
  • Digital pegging board
  • Use with real cards
  • Score tracking
  • Multiple board themes
  • Race to 121 points
Features
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Muggins is a digital cribbage board. Set your device flat on the table, play with your real cards, and keep score with the Muggins app. Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Pull back or hit the undo button to remove them. THE BOARD, NOT THE CARDS Muggins lets you play cribbage with your real cards. You shuffle, deal, and count your own points. The app simply acts as a scorekeeper, a digital cribbage board. HOW IT WORKS • Open the app and play. No account creation, no sign-in. • Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Drag your knob and a live preview shows you how many points you'll add once you release it. No number pads and no typing. • Tap the peg to subtract a point. Hit the undo button to undo the last points added. • Good sound quality. You'll hear a click for every point as you pull, a solid clunk when the peg lands. Mute it in settings if you'd rather play quietly. • Game over at 121 — a dedicated result screen and a stamp on the loser's score if they got skunked (or double-skunked, we're not here to protect feelings). • Your current game saves automatically if you leave the app. PICK YOUR BOARD Three boards to play on: • Classic — warm cream card stock, enamel pegs, tilted playing-card score displays. Free. • Obsidian — a matte-black board with an LED trail and softly glowing pegs. • Casino — green felt, ivory rails, and a thin gold pinstripe. FAIR AND SIMPLE PRICING Muggins is free to play, supported by ads that never interrupt a game. There's an optional one-time purchase that will remove all ads and unlock all board themes. No subscription, no recurring costs. FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LOVE CRIBBAGE Muggins is a scoreboard and it assumes you know the game already. It's for the cabin where the board went missing, the vacation rental, the airplane tray, the bar. If you carry a deck of cards, you now carry a cribbage board too. Made for iPhone and iPad. Grab a deck. Deal six. The board's ready.

Screenshots

Cribbage Classic4 screens
Muggins4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cribbage Classic at none against Muggins's 4. Cribbage Classic also leads on ratings volume (31K vs 4) and chart position (#187 vs unranked). Muggins's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 9 months). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Muggins sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Cribbage Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Muggins holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cribbage Classic has 31K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Cribbage Classic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Muggins's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cribbage Classic ships an update every 9 months, Muggins every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Cribbage Classic versus Muggins: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCribbage ClassicMuggins
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (31K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#187 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGames By Post LLCKYLE ANTHONY MC GAHEY

Customer experience

Cribbage Classic

All ratings31,237 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews1,293 reviews
Positive66.2%
Neutral8.1%
Negative25.7%

Muggins

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Muggins

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cribbage Classic

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Muggins

One-time4
  • Obsidian Theme$1.99
  • Casino Theme$1.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
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  • Unlock Everything$6.99

Questions

Is Cribbage Classic free?
Cribbage Classic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Muggins free?
Muggins is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cribbage Classic or Muggins?
Muggins is rated higher. Cribbage Classic averages 4.6 out of 5 from 31K ratings, while Muggins averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Cribbage Classic or Muggins have ads?
Both Cribbage Classic and Muggins show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cribbage Classic or Muggins?
Cribbage Classic ships an update every 9 months, and Muggins every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cribbage Classic was updated on October 4, 2026 and Muggins on September 23, 2026.

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