Show HN: Swap 'Em Poker, daily puzzle game

1 points by ZenBlender 2 days ago

Hi HN!

Swap 'Em Poker is a daily puzzle game using poker hands inspired by Texas Hold 'Em. Given a set of "board" cards and a series of "hands", the poker hands start out in increasing order of strength. The goal is to swap cards between the board and the hands until the resulting hand strengths are reversed. (More instructions on the site.) Every day brings new easy/medium/hard puzzles to play.

I designed and built it myself. Comments, questions, feedback?

My puzzle generator for this is a fairly sophisticated algorithm that finds puzzles that satisfy certain requirements. It has led to some surprising discoveries, such as puzzles that have 7 hands but are solvable in only 2 swaps.

This is actually my second solo-developed poker game, the other is Triplejack Poker ( https://www.triplejack.com/ ) that has been running for over 20 years!

Thank you for playing!