Wordle for Poker

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TylerE2• 4 years ago

Doesn’t work well on iOS. The white home bar overlays the input controls

https://i.imgur.com/VjcvtTD.jpg

Edit; also the layout is breaking my brain. Each pair of hole cards side by side like every poker website, book, or broadcast would be 50x better

Also also… don’t like the 2 step since it doesn’t make clear which cards already e its in the hand, and you’re already at 24 buttons… 46 wouldn’t be that much more, even

drekipus• 4 years ago

this is pretty cool. got the first one in 5 guesses. the rules are a little complex but understandable. I didn't quite pick up that the flop, turn, and river are their own little "lanes" at first but it makes sense.

I would perhaps word it as "guess the flop, turn, and river of the game" - not "guess the 5 cards"

good job!

rob743• 4 years ago

Related - Wordle for Stable Diffusion: https://diffudle.com/

Edit: this was only mentioned by the author in an HN comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33728208), so it might still be work in progress - works for me however ;)

cmeacham983• 4 years ago

Is this a troll? I immediately get hit with a "You win!" popup telling me I took 6 guesses without even getting to play.

rob743• 4 years ago

Strange, works for me, and I have played it on three different days now... However it's a project of another HN user that they only mentioned in another thread, so it might still be work in progress.

wizofaus2• 4 years ago

Likewise

prakhar8975• 4 years ago

Sorry!! I made some really fatal changes a few hours ago, that's why it wasn't working. You can try now.

HOOVERDAM• 4 years ago

i play wordle regularly and really enjoyed this. was very satisfying and managed to get it on the 6th guess my first attempt. worked fine playing on iphone 13 mini.

smegsicle• 4 years ago

some green message showed up after my first guess that i didn't get to read

dannyeei• 4 years ago

Awesome game! Not sure what everyone else is saying - I found it easy to understand and it works fine on iPhone

TylerE2• 4 years ago

Which one? Anything with a physical button (NB: 2019+ iPad Pros do not have a button) doesn’t have the issue, but they don’t have a home bar.

There’s also a huge difference between iPhone and iPad here. iPad puts the share/tab buttons in the main top bar, and page content goes all the way to the bottom of the screen. (Disclaimer: kickstand case so I’m in landscape.)

On iPhone there is a dedicated bar for those below the content, so it doesn’t affect the UI, as the home bar goes below THAT.

garbagetime• 4 years ago

I got it in my third guess, but my first guess was correct apart from the suits.

bonzini• 4 years ago

Same here, this particular puzzle didn't seem so hard and I know nothing about Texas Hold'Em except for the meaning of flop/turn/river.

m4tthumphrey• 4 years ago

Same.

Fun game. Let's see if I keep coming back like wordle and quordle.

tcmb• 4 years ago

Interesting, but I feel if there is a card on the board that doesn't contribute to any player's result, it's too hard to guess in just five tries. You have 2,3,4...A, which is too many options, even if you manage to get the suit correct.

I don't really know how to change the rules to compensate for this, but it feels like these 'unrelated' cards ruin the game in a way.

DanHulton• 4 years ago

What you're talking about is a "random kicker" and the rules specifically say there aren't any. Every flop card hits someone's hand, in terms of rank, if not suit.

This makes it significantly easier. Got it in 3, could have gotten it in 2 except I had a 50/50 on the suit of the last card and I picked the wrong 50.

codeflo2• 4 years ago

Not sure if it’s fair to downvote tcmb for not seeing this — the second rules page was rather well-hidden, I overlooked it as well.

graderjs2• 4 years ago

This isn’t a problem: No random kickers on the board - The rank of each board card will alway be a part of at least one player's hand in at least one phase.

Rules page 2

SamBam• 4 years ago

I found that confusing, not knowing the term "random kickers."

To rephrase slightly for my brain: Every card in the solution will be used in at least one player's hand.

It might have been nice if there were an annotated example game.

faangiq• 4 years ago

Neat. Guessing the suits a bit annoying but well done.

awb• 4 years ago

It’s fun to guess cards that make hands better or worse, but it’s a bit tedious to make repetitive random guesses for the inconsequential cards.

littlestymaar• 4 years ago

There shouldn't be any (see[1]) and in today's puzzle, there aren't actually any.

BTW, that makes the game less realistic and interesting Poker-wise, IMHO.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33770866

soylentgraham• 4 years ago

I came up with a poker-wordle-ish game idea, and that was higher/lower. You enter a hand, and it told you if your hand was higher or lower.

Maybe a bit basic though, adding a texas holdem flop-river reveal could have made it more interesting

bobthepanda• 4 years ago

I wish this had a colorblind mode. Wordle has one.

Why is red/green such a common color palette? One in twelve men is colorblind. (Interestingly the rate is 1 in 200 in women.)

bearmode• 4 years ago

Colour psychology. Red = danger, green = good.

onion2k• 4 years ago

Western color psychology.

Red is considered a very lucky color in China.

listenallyall• 4 years ago

Men? Women? So 2019...

zapdrive• 4 years ago

I know you are joking, but I wish to fast forward to the world where it's common to use non offensive terms like birthing person/non-birthing person.

forty• 4 years ago

Interestingly the rate is 1 in 200 in women

I was told this is because the responsible gene is on the X chromosome, so having two X reduces considerably the odds of having 2 failing ones.

scrame• 4 years ago

just way too complicated.

Kuraj• 4 years ago

Wait until you see Wordle for Riichi Mahjong :-)

https://mahjong-handle.update.sh/

steinuil• 4 years ago

I love that one! I find it kind of amazing that it works at all with so many possible tiles and hands, though I guess them being in order helps a lot.

quickthrower2• 4 years ago

I like it, but it relies on too much luck once all logical deduction is exhausted: I feel like it needs another clue source in there. Perhaps giving you a flop card for free would be enough.

Another thing is to accept any answer that would explain the bronze/silver/gold.

Or what would be cool is take WSOP actual games, show the action and the cards, and you guess the flop/turn/river.

sgjohnson• 4 years ago

Another thing is to accept any answer that would explain the bronze/silver/gold.

Then all you would ever need is one guess.

aqme282• 4 years ago

Yes agreed. Had everything dialed in except a card that I only knew to be a spade and no helpful information from the ranks. Just had to exhaust my guesses numerically.

darepublic2• 4 years ago

I didn't realize it on first playthrough but since the rank is ordered on the flop you do have a clue that way

thathndude3• 4 years ago

Got to this point as well. But it requires a certain amount of logic and intelligence to put together the process of elimination test efficiently. Got mine on try 6.

origamiPyro• 4 years ago

Wait, my pokle question was:

    Liz: Qd Qc, 2nd, 1st, 1st
    Riz: 4s 9s, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
    Siz: 10d Ad, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd

I got it in 5, and my answer had no spade in it. Did we have different pokles?

yccs27• 4 years ago

The rules drastically limit the needed guessing with the "No random kickers" rule:

    The rank of each board card will alway be a part of at least one player's hand in at least one phase.

darepublic2• 4 years ago

Any answer that explains the rankings is too broad. That takes no luck and you should get it first time. I get what you mean though, there is a bit too much luck

evancox100• 4 years ago

You get an additional clue that there are no “kickers” on the board. Quoting from the the help:

“No random kickers on the board - The rank of each board card will alway be a part of at least one player's hand in at least one phase. Note: "part of a hand" means the significant card(s) in: Pair, Two Pair, Three of a Kind or Four of a Kind (not kickers) TLDR: You may have to guess a card's suit with no clues, but not it's rank”

coverband• 4 years ago

I won the first puzzle in 4 guesses, but had a tough time understanding the rules. I think some more clarification/simplification is in order. For example, it took me a minute to understand the colors represented gold/silver/bronze...

almokhtar• 4 years ago

source code ?

buck4roo• 4 years ago

Thumbs up. Very fun to solve.

stevenking86l• 4 years ago

This is really fun!

thathndude3• 4 years ago

Played once. Got it on 6th try. Fun/cool idea. Don’t think I’ll play again.

gooseus• 4 years ago

I had every rank from the first guess and then had to use two more guesses just to find the appropriate suits with the only information being that I needed to avoid putting a flush on the board.

I like it, and would be interested to see some entropy analysis like what 3bl1br did with Worldle when it first got popular.

Curious how the measurable information entropy changes with guesses across these different types of games... I have a feeling that while Wordle can get to a point where you're stuck with even guesses, I doubt it would happen as often as with this Pokle game.

csa• 4 years ago

I had every rank from the first guess and then had to use two more guesses just to find the appropriate suits

Exact same.

I will be interested to see how other puzzles compare.

prakhar8975• 4 years ago

Adding this to my list of wordle-like games: https://github.com/prakhar897/awesome-wordle/blob/main/READM...

Zecc• 4 years ago

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