Cribbage Classic vs NinetyNine Game
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.
NinetyNine Game
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Ninety-Nine is a game of nerve dressed up as arithmetic. Every card played adds to a shared tally. Take it over 99 and you're finished. That's the whole rule — and then the deck starts fighting back. A nine slams the tally straight to 99, whatever it was, and hands the wreckage to whoever plays next. An eight locks the suit, and everyone must follow or break. A ten drags the tally backwards. A four flips the direction of play. And a queen is wild — she copies any card you name, right up until somebody draws one from the deck and queens turn poisonous for the rest of the game. When you have nothing legal left, you have two choices. Skip, and owe two plays next turn. Or go to the well: two face-down cards you've never seen, one drawn at random. If it plays, you survive and draw two more. If it doesn't, you're out on the spot. Last player standing wins. • THREE OPPONENTS WITH REAL OPINIONS Casual plays reasonably and misses the killer line. Sharp defends its margin and reads the table. Ruthless hoards its brakes, weaponises the suit lock, and sets traps a turn ahead. They don't cheat — they can only see what you can. • BUILT TO BE FELT Custom haptic patterns for every event, from the flick of a card leaving your hand to the double-thump of a nine landing. The tally's tick rises in pitch as you close on 99, so you hear the danger before you read it. • EVERY CARD DRAWN IN CODE No stock art. Real pip layouts on the classic seven-row grid, engraved court cards, and a guilloche card back — all vector, all crisp at any size. • NEVER LOOK UP A RULE Cards you can't legally play are dimmed. Tap one and the game tells you exactly why. Each choice shows the tally it would produce, so you're making decisions, not doing sums. • PASS AND PLAY Two to six of you, one device. The screen covers itself between turns, so nobody sees anybody else's hand. Name every seat and hand the phone around. • TABLES YOUR WAY Two to six players. Hand sizes from five to twelve. An illustrated rulebook, lifetime stats, and eleven achievements to chase. No accounts. No ads. No in-app purchases. No internet connection — the app makes no network requests at all, and nothing you do leaves your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: NinetyNine Game at none against Cribbage Classic's shown. NinetyNine Game also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 9 months). Cribbage Classic's advantage is chart position (#143 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cribbage Classic ships an update every 9 months, NinetyNine Game daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Classic | NinetyNine Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Best chart rank | #143 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Amir Jabbari |
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
NinetyNine Game
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Classic
No in-app purchases
NinetyNine Game
No in-app purchases
Questions
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