Eli5: how truly random are the hands in a cribbage app?

Question

Is it random or is each hand scripted as in if I don’t play a certain hand well will the computer make its cards to help its hands right there or is it actually using pre determined cards and just getting lucky?

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Answer 1

There’s no real way of telling without seeing the code of the app in question.

Of course it is perfectly possible that the cards are in fact properly randomized, it’s not like that is something difficult to do. But whether it really is done like that by that app, we can’t know.