Talk:Poker hand analyser
Suggestions
Hi, just some suggestions on the task. (Nice one by the way):
- You might ask people to show their output on this page.
- 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)
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)
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)
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)