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Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by NineStarPoint »

wink wrote: post #57

Not sure if it's frequency bias, but when did the perceived "Poker == Texas Holdem" happen? I remember when I was learning about Poker as a kid/teenager in Europe I didn't hear about that variant, then I didn't play for a bit and suddenly there's only Texas Holdem.

My guess would be during the US poker boom around 2003ish. Texas Hold Em had for quite a while been the variant of poker used by the largest tournaments, and during that boom a lot more people learned about competitive poker and started playing it online.

As for why Texas Holdem is the most popular variant for betting poker, it’s a variant that is not too complex, offers a lot of opportunities to infer information about other player’s hands due to minimal private information compared to other variants, and has multiple opportunities for betting. It works well from both a competitive and watchability stand point.

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by david_allison »

origamiPyro wrote: post #54
aqme28 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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?

I had the same question as you

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by yccs27 »

aqme28 wrote: post #41
quickthrower2 wrote: post #35

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.

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.

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.

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by zapdrive »

listenallyall wrote: post #38
bobthepanda wrote: post #23

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.)

Men? Women? So 2019...

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.

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by csa »

gooseus wrote: post #55

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…

> 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.

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by mk_stjames »

dwringer wrote: post #60
wink wrote: post #57

Not sure if it's frequency bias, but when did the perceived "Poker == Texas Holdem" happen? I remember when I was learning about Poker as a kid/teenager in Europe I didn't hear about that variant, then I didn't play for a bit and suddenly there's only Texas Holdem.

I certainly can't speak in general but I noticed it enter my circles of friends when the World Poker Tour and Celebrity Poker Showdown games started on TV ~2003. Around that time it seemed like everyone I knew was suddenly interested in Texas Hold'em (before that I had basically only ever played 5-card draw).

The movie "Rounders" came out in 1998... that was what did it for myself and my friend circle.

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by j7ake »

yccs27 wrote: post #63
aqme28 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

I had to guess because one of the three flop cards were uniformative

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by Zecc »

prakhar897 wrote: post #56

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

You might also like:

https://duotrigordle.com/# https://colordle.com/ https://dontwordle.com/ https://jonesnxt.github.io/kilordle/

The only one of these I play religiously is duotrigordle.

Re: Wordle for Poker

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Post by forty »

bobthepanda wrote: post #23

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.)

> 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.

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