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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 - 4 posts · tagged: #poker #games #building

GOT IT IN FIVE GUESSES

Greg Bildson made a Wordle-style game for poker hands. I tried it and replied: "Fun game. Took me a moment to realize the clues but got it in 5 guesses"

The game is Tell. You see your own two cards, the board, and your opponent's equity against you. You have six guesses to identify their two hidden cards. Each guess gives feedback on ranks, suits, and how its equity compares with the real hand.

That makes the percentage part of the clue, rather than the answer you are trying to calculate. A green tile means the exact card is in the hand. Yellow means the rank is right but the suit is wrong.

Greg replied that it "actually needs to be harder." I had used five of the six guesses.

I then shared two poker-related apps I built: Odds.cool and Pic.poker. This time I was the person playing someone else's poker app and working out what the clues meant.