How long is this taking?

Gah, Junior year is no fun!

I doubt I have enough time to work on this... I estimate about 2 hours to do a basic script, a dumb script that parses, discards lowest cards not in pairs.

Anyone with some leet search routine? :O How many hours have you all spent so far on this contest?

I've so far written a script to count the points in the hand and display what is in the hand (e.g. Full House). This took about 2hours - not helped by the fact I have never played Poker before

The next thing I'm going to do is to sort out which cards could be discarded without losing any points. Then I shall make it look at the cards it has to see if there are any which could possibly get some points, e.g. if the hand it is dealt includes a straight except for one card, then it should discard that single card in the hope of getting a straight.

I'm only about four months into PHP and this script took me about 3 hours to write. Mine checks for any possible combination of hands and determines a risk factor for pulling the next card. I had some neat gfx in there but Matt likes these plain-jane scripts lately. =)

It took me about 4 hours (of inspiration) to write a script that checks for pairs, two pairs, three of a kind, four of a kind and full house. Also it can decide which cards to swap out. Now I just have to check for stright, flush, and stright flush, and to save the score.
There are big possible uses for this little script after finished, don't you think?

cheating at the local casino? :laugh:

Useful only if the cards cease being random.