Questions tagged [card-games]
For challenges which involve card games. This includes playing the game, implementing the game, as well as challenges concerned with individual mechanics and analysis of the game (for instance, computing probabilities of certain events).
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Detect revokes in Jass
Jass is a trick-taking game for four players and the national card game of Switzerland. It is played with a 36-card deck, four suits each with ranks 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A. We will be using French ...
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Determine the optimal blackjack move
After the success of my baccarat challenge, I figured we should try a similar challenge for another casino game, blackjack.
Blackjack is a game played with two to eight decks of cards shuffled ...
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Should the banker hit?
Baccarat is a casino game where gamblers bet on whether one of two hands, the player or the banker, will have a sum closer to 9 (mod 10) or whether they will tie. It is played with four to eight ...
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Bingo Cards PDF
Write code to generate a PDF file containing 6 bingo cards. Winner is the one that uses the shortest code and needs no actions except for installing a library and running the code. (No Save As PDF). ...
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Determine if a Spider Solitaire game is stale
Let's introduce a simplified variant of the well known Spider Solitaire.
From Wikipedia:
The main purpose of the game is to remove all cards from the table, assembling them in the tableau before ...
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Play a game of memory
Playing the game of memory against a machine is highly unfair, because they play almost as good as small children. So let's make the machine play alone, but in a fair way:
Input: 1...26 pairs of ...
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King of the Cards
King of the Cards
Code available here!
In this King of the Hill challenge, you must write a bot that can play Crazy Eights. This is a card game often played by children, in which the objective is to ...
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Magic: the Gathering - Colour Sorting
Related: Deck Names Friends or Foes Paying for Spells
The Magic: the Gathering card game has five colours of magical mana: white (W), blue (U), black (B), red (R), and green (G). Cards can be any of ...
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Calculate the probability of getting this hand in n tries [closed]
Imagine there is a card game where the primary objective of the game is to get 4 of one card in your hand.
Game mechanics
Each player starts of with 10 cards in their hand. The remaining 32 cards (...
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Heart Point Generator
It's mentioned last time that, in Hearts,
Each round every player gets a non-negative amount of points. The sum of the points is 26, and at least one player gets 13 or more points.
Actually, it's ...
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Is it a possible Hearts result?
Hearts is a 4-player game that uses the following scoring rules:
Everyone starts with score 0.
Each round every player gets a non-negative amount of points. The sum of the points is 26, and at least ...
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Snap (card game)
When I was a child I used to play a variation of Snap to stake soccer trading cards.
"Game" is an overstatement because the only role of the players is to secretly prepare their starting ...
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FreeCell stack moving
This question is about moving stacks around in the card game FreeCell, but here it will be presented more abstractly.
Given three integers \$0\le n,m<10000,0<k<10000\$.
There are \$m+2\$ ...
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Turn-based RPS Poker
This is a two-player card game which resembles a vastly simplified game of Texas Hold'em,
combined with RPS (rock-paper-scissors) and the most basic mechanic of commercial turn-based card games.
The ...
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Let's play Judgement!
In this king-of-the-hill challenge, you will be making a python 3 bot to play the card game judgement!
Sandbox
Rules
Judgement is a hand based game similar to games like rummy. In each round,
7 cards ...
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How many Faro shuffles for a cycle?
Background
Inspired by this video by Matt Parker
A Faro shuffle is a perfect riffle shuffle where the deck is exactly interleaved with its other half. This is how to perform one:
the deck of 52 cards ...
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One-card Poker for Two
This is a challenge to write bots to play the 1st and 2nd players in the following simple poker game.
Rules of the poker game
There are two players, A and B. Each antes $10 into the pot, and is dealt ...
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Check if hand from card game "Rooster" is valid for the second stage
Here in Russia, we have a little-known card game with the name, when translated directly, means Rooster.
The cards used are two full 54-card decks of playing cards from 2 through aces, with jokers. ...
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Recreate a simplified version of the card game L.L.A.M.A
In LLAMA, you want to dump cards from your hand as quickly as you can, but you might not be able to play what you want.
Each player starts a round with six cards in hand; the deck consists of llama ...
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Challenge: Functioning Blackjack Game [closed]
This is kept fairly original:
Write a program that creates a standard blackjack game:
input "h" means hit or draw another card
input "s" means stand, or take what you have already
Rules:
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Play Big 2 by yourself, as fast as you can
Introduction
Big 2 is a card game popular in East Asia and South East Asia, in which 4 players are dealt 13 cards each (ie, an equal division of a standard deck without jokers). The goal is to empty ...
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20 cards with no Set
Background
Set is a card game. The deck consists of 81 unique cards that vary in four features: number of shapes (one, two, or three), shape (diamond, squiggle, oval), shading (solid, striped, or ...
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Play the card game "Set" [duplicate]
"Set" is a card game played with a deck of 81 cards, twelve of which are pictured below:
Each card has four attributes, each of which may assume three values:
Number: the number of symbols, either 1,...
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What is the score of my Scopa hand?
I like card game challenges so I made this one for the Italian card game Scopa. My family has been playing this game since time immemorial. It has a very interesting scoring system that should be fun ...
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Is this a valid Tichu play?
Tichu is a card game in which players take turn playing sets of cards from a deck consisting of a standard 52-card deck, plus 4 additional cards:
the dragon, which has a greater value than any other ...
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Golf (6-card) Golf!
Golf Golf!
This is my first challenge, so please be gentle! The challenge is to write a program that will output the correct score for a layout in the card game "Golf."
The card game Golf has many ...
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Nothing like a good ol' game of ModTen
Disclaimer: ModTen is a fictional card game which was created for the sole purpose of this challenge.
The rules of ModTen
ModTen is played with a standard 52-card deck. Because the full rules are ...
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Irish Snap: Variant Rules
Introduction
Recently, me and a couple of my friends decided to play some cards, and one of them suggested the game 'Irish Snap', which was the inspiration for this challenge. However, I later learnt ...
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Professor at MIT needs an AP!
The 5-card magic trick involves a magician whose assistant gives them 4 shown cards and a hidden one, in this order, and the magician must guess the hidden one.
WARNING: Solution below! Leave now or ...
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Accordion Solitaire: Which First Moves Can I Make?
Introduction:
Unfortunately an Accordion Solitaire Solver challenge already exists (Solve a game of Accordion), so instead this easier related challenge.
Let's start by explaining how Accordion ...
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Scoring Chinese Hearts
Chinese Hearts, also known as Gong Zhu (拱猪, Chase the Pig), is a variance of the Hearts game. It is a 4 player card game with the aim to earn the highest amount of points. You may read more about it ...
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Russian BS - Submissions accepted until October 13th
The ChatRoom is here
I love playing the card game BS, but sometimes, it just doesn't have enough oomph for my short attention span. Instead, let's play some Russian BS.
Rules
Here is a quick guide ...
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Let's Play some ProSet! [duplicate]
ProSet is a classic card game that is played normally with 63 cards. One card has 6 colored dots on it, like below
The rest of the cards are missing some of these 6 dots, but each card has at least 1 ...
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Bridge Deal Scoring
Goal
Given a deal result from Duplicate Contract Bridge, calculate the deal score.
Basically the same as iBug's question, which was deleted. I figured out this scoring system while trying to answer ...
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Scoring Briscola
Introduction
Briscola is one of Italy's most popular card games. It is a trick-taking card game, like Bridge. Briscola is well known for its bizarre point system. In this challenge, given two cards, ...
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Was it a Superb Shuffle™️
According to this question a Superb Shuffle™️ is defined as a full deck of cards (including jokers) which follows this set of rules:
No two cards (except Jokers) of the same suit are adjacent.
No ...
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Execute a Superb Shuffle™
For the purposes of this question, a deck of cards is formatted in this way:
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Professor at MIT can read minds!
The task is taken from an MIT lecture by Prof. Devadas called You can read minds. A detailed explanation of the trick can be found in the linked video, or in this document. I'll try to explain it in ...
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Blackjack Bust Calculator
Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is a comparing card game between yourself and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer, but players do not play against each other.
Play ...
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Want to see a Magic Card Trick?
The first magic card trick I ever learned as a child was the following:
Have 1 deck of cards where the pattern on the back is not vertically symmetric.
Organize all cards to be facing one direction.
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Wanna See a Card Trick? (Part I)
Amazingly, this is the easier of the three card tricks I know off the top of my head...
The aim of this is to have your compiler perform a specific card trick. There's no slight of hand, and the ...
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Cribbage Scoring [duplicate]
My brothers and I like to play Cribbage. Now, the scoring rules for Cribbage are somewhat complicated, and I often worry that I'm not counting my score correctly. Therefore, your job is to write a ...
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Is it a shuffle?
Yesterday I asked this question about riffle shuffles. It seems that yesterdays question was a bit too hard so this question is a related but much easier task.
Today you are asked to determine if a ...
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How many shuffles
A riffle shuffle is a type of shuffle where the deck is split into two partitions and the partitions are then spliced back together to create a new shuffled deck.
The cards are spliced together in ...
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Hand patterns in a card game
A deck of cards is the Cartesian product of S suits and R ranks.
Many, though not all, card games use ...
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Deal an ASCII Deck
There's never really been a definitive ASCII-cards challenge AFAIK. So, using the following deck of ASCII cards:
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Badugi, Who Wins?
Inspired by this challenge and related to this one.
Background
Badugi [bæduːɡiː] is a low-ball draw-poker variant.
The Pokerstars World Cup Of Online Poker $1K event starts within 3 hours and I'll ...
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1326 starting hold'em combos
The goal is to get all combinations of hold'em starting hands (every two card combination) in the shortest amount of code.
A hold'em hand is two distinct cards dealt from a standard deck of 52 cards, ...
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Dungeon of botdom
– of crisis and martyrdom
(that's the subtitle because subtitles are cool)
In this king-of-the-hill challenge in python (yup; you need go no farther to know you may not submit in java), you need to ...
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