Talk:Poker hand analyser

Suggestions

Hi, just some suggestions on the task. (Nice one by the way):

1. You might ask people to show their output on this page.
2. You might want to flesh out the examples so that there is an example of each type of hand

--Paddy3118 (talk) 16:28, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

I made those changes so Perl 6 will need those (slight), updates. --Paddy3118 (talk) 17:23, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Another example to add would be a bicycle (to compliment the royal flush) to show that an ace can be used as two different values.

A bicycle (or bike) is a straight consisting of:   ace, deuce, trey, 4, and a 5   (the lowest straight possible). -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 05:40, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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I would like the allowing of expanding invalid responses with (possibly, say)

invalid --- the reason for invalid flagging here.

-- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 05:30, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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In the task's preamble, it says that Each input card has two characters indicating face and suit, but then goes on to show a 10 for a pip (which is two characters).

I suggest that program accept both 10 and a T   (and a t).

Also, all pips (on every card deck that I remember) use capital letters for (lettered) pips:   A (ace), J (jack), Q (queen), and K (for king).   Of course, their lowercase versions should also be accepted.   Jokers may or may not be capitalized, but most decks seem to use capital letters. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 20:47, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

extra credit suggestion

It would be real interesting to program (for extra credit) adding two jokers to the deck, adding a few complications:

•   duplicates would be allowed   (for jokers only)
•   five-of-a-kind would be the highest hand

-- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 07:58, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Gerard, have added Jokers

--Dwarring (talk) 01:20, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

But their doesn't seem to be an explanation of the action of jokers? --Paddy3118 (talk) 09:32, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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It's a good thing I didn't mention bugs or wild cards --- or playing with more than five cards per hand (as in some stud poker games).

Bugs are jokers than can represent:

•   any generic (non-specific) ace
•   any card in a flush or straight (that isn't already in that hand)

Bugs (as in a type of jokers) are easy to program for when analyzing poker hands.

I once played a stud poker game with (all) red cards wild.
I'm still trying to figure out the programming required to support analyzing poker hands where there're more wild cards than non-wild cards (in addition to the jokers, of course).   Figuring out if there is a straight with three wild cards is daunting, especially when playing something like 7-card stud. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 07:28, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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Gerard, I've taken you extra credit example as sample input. Thanks! Also added a few two joker test cases (sorry to move the goal-posts!)

Also, I notice that a "t♣" has crept into you v2 and v3 tests, as in: q♣ t♣ 7♣ 6♣ 4♣

--Dwarring (talk) 21:23, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I wanted to show that the REXX program example could handle a t as well as a 10. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

ok, that makes sense -- Dwarring