Talking about Poker game, Game development and Javascript.
There are a lot of games you can make starting from a Poker card game. The most obvious is the poker itself, but there also are puzzle games which used Poker cards and rules in the gameplay, like Sage Solitaire. Anyway, no matter the kind of game you are about to make using Poker rules, you have to be able to check what’s in the players hand. I was sure I would have found a lot of scripts in the web, so I made some searches and the most popular examples out there are: Poker Hand Evaluator: the most complete in my opinion but needs a 124MB lookup table which makes it useless in HTML5 game development. Poker Evaluator: a nice example on jsfiddle using regular expressions but it only works with cards taken from a single deck, and in a puzzle game you can also have more than one deck or completely random cards such as two tens of hearts. Poker Hand Evaluator (yes, another): evaluates two hands of poker to see what’s the best. The code isn’t that clear but it’s a nice tool although it cannot manages completely random cards. Poker Hand Analyzer: the most clever analyzer I found, using bit & mathematical operations you can analyze your poker hands in less than 10 lines, but only works with a 52 cards deck. So I ended making my own engine capable of working with any card combination, including 5 of a kind, pairs with flush, and all and every five cards combination you can imagine. Have a try: Play with the selectors and see your hand in real time. And this is the source code, easy and plain, you can port it to any language.
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<div id = "table"></div>
<div id = "result" style = "font:normal 32px arial;margin:10px;"></div>
<script>
var hand = [];
var valuesArray = [];
var suitsArray = [];
function checkHand(){
var resultString = "";
for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++){
hand[i] = document.getElementById("card_" + i).value;
}
convertHand();
console.log(duplicateCards())
switch(duplicateCards()){
case "2":
resultString = "1 Pair";
break;
case "22":
resultString = "2 Pairs";
break;
case "3":
resultString = "3 of a Kind";
break;
case "23":
case "32":
resultString = "Full House";
break;
case "4":
resultString = "4 of a Kind";
break;
case "5":
resultString = "5 of a Kind";
break;
default:
if(isStraight()){
resultString = "Straight";
}
if(isAceStraight()){
resultString = "Ace Straight";
}
break;
}
if(isFlush()){
if(resultString){
resultString += " and Flush";
}
else{
resultString = "Flush";
}
}
if(!resultString){
resultString = "nothing...";
}
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = resultString;
}
function convertHand(){
for(var i = 0; i < 5; i ++){
valuesArray[i] = hand[i] % 13;
suitsArray[i] = Math.floor(hand[i] / 13);
}
}
function isFlush(){
for(var i = 0; i < 4; i ++){
if(suitsArray[i] != suitsArray[i+1]){
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
function isStraight(){
var lowest = getLowest();
for(var i = 1; i < 5; i++){
if(occurrencesOf(lowest + i) != 1){
return false
}
}
return true;
}
function isAceStraight(){
var lowest = 9;
for(var i = 1; i < 4; i++){
if(occurrencesOf(lowest + i) != 1){
return false
}
}
return occurrencesOf(1) == 0;
}
function getLowest(){
var min = 12;
for(var i = 0; i < valuesArray.length; i++){
min = Math.min(min, valuesArray[i]);
}
return min;
}
function duplicateCards(){
var occurrencesFound = [];
var result = "";
for(var i = 0; i < valuesArray.length; i++){
var occurrences = occurrencesOf(valuesArray[i]);
if(occurrences > 1 && occurrencesFound.indexOf(valuesArray[i]) == -1){
result += occurrences;
occurrencesFound.push(valuesArray[i]);
}
}
return result;
}
function occurrencesOf(n){
var count = 0;
var index = 0;
do{
index = valuesArray.indexOf(n, index) + 1;
if(index == 0){
break;
}
else{
count ++;
}
} while(index < valuesArray.length);
return count;
}
</script>
<script>
var cardSymbols = ["A", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "J", "Q", "K"];
var suitSymbols = ["?", "?", "?", "?"];
var tableHTML = '';
for(var j = 0; j < 5; j ++){
tableHTML += '<select style = "padding:3px;font:normal 32px arial;margin:10px" id = "card_' + j + '" onchange = "checkHand();">';
for(var i = 0; i < 52; i ++){
tableHTML += '<option value = "' + i + '">' + cardSymbols[i % 13] + " " + suitSymbols[Math.floor(i / 13)] + '</option>';
}
tableHTML += '</select>';
}
document.getElementById("table").innerHTML = tableHTML;
checkHand();
</script>
</body>
</html>
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