Poker Hands

by **bluskeye** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:21 am

I was brainstorming last night and came up with this: 54 cards layed out randomly in a 6 by 10 rectangle with 6 spaces randomly included. The object is to take over poker hands. each player holds 5 randomly selected cards on the map initially. All other cards are held by 'neutral'.
Play in usual Risk fashion. Your highest 5 cards count for bonus and you receive 1 re-enforcement for every 3 cards you hold. you can't move through the 6 empty spaces.
Bonus re-enforcements would be something like: Pair=1, 3 of a kind =3, 4 of a kind=6, straight=5, flush (easy to get when you can see the cards)= 3, straight flush=8, Royal flush=12.
The difficult part may be the random layout of the cards at the start of each game. Also the 2 wild cards could be used to moderate the game, of add another challenge. they could always start as neutral & cause a loss of 1 per turn to any card they are next to.
Whaduyathink? 8-)

cool Huh?

by **The Weird One** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:25 am

erm...how do you propose to manage the random layout of the cards? or is it just one set layout?

by **bluskeye** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:51 am

Dont Know Im not a programmer. Im just the guy who comes up with work for other poor suckers. Uh...what do you call that guy?

by **Incandenza** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:29 am

There is already a Poker map in Final Forge. It has somewhat different game mechanics than you proposed, but it's the same general concept.

Clicky.

by **yeti_c** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:53 am

I love this idea.

C.

by **whitestazn88** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:36 pm

i just wanna throw in the fact that this would make a great map

please continue to develop this and then feel shamed once the other poker map gets quenched and you'll have done all this work for nothing

by **WidowMakers** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:52 pm

yeti_c wrote:I love this idea.

C.

What do ya say yeti? Wanna make a poker map?

by **whitestazn88** on Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:26 pm

lol at yeti and wm

by **bluskeye** on Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:56 am

Thanks for the great positive input. I take it you guys (gal or two?) know something about programming. I don't. But I love to invent games and other useless stuff. My friend 'Kid_Dynamite' & I created a version of RISK we play on the original board that uses the cannons, horses and men as what they are. We also added forts. We were surprised as to how well it played so we copyrighted the rules. If you are interested in seeing them ( a Word document), message me our E-Mail and ill send it to you. Thanks again for the pos. F.B.

by **yeti_c** on Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:59 am

I think you missed the sarcasm in our posts...

However - you do need to reread this post.

Incandenza wrote:There is already a Poker map in Final Forge. It has somewhat different game mechanics than you proposed, but it's the same general concept.

Clicky.

Your idea about cannons and horses sounds interesting - on a similar note - I suggest you check out the "Waterloo" map - as that has cannons, horses & infantry.

C.

by **whitestazn88** on Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:10 am

yeti_c wrote:I think you missed the sarcasm in our posts...

However - you do need to reread this post.

Incandenza wrote:There is already a Poker map in Final Forge. It has somewhat different game mechanics than you proposed, but it's the same general concept.

Clicky.

Your idea about cannons and horses sounds interesting - on a similar note - I suggest you check out the "Waterloo" map - as that has cannons, horses & infantry.

C.

lol, yeti, you're gonna make the kid cry... nothing he's coming up with is original

by **bluskeye** on Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:18 am

Your right. I searched 'Poker' and see there's lots of good input there. Ill play you when they quench the map. And don't worry I live on biting sarcasm. I think Ill go bite a whole bowl of it right now.
By the way 'Quench' ??? a bunch of geeks with pencil necks ticking away on a keyboard comparing themselves to blacksmiths??? It reminds me of your tough 'Iceman' Graphic.

by **yeti_c** on Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:25 pm

Wahey - we got a fiesty one here!!!

Yeah - we call it "Quenching" cos we've named it the "Foundry" -> There's a bit a theme going here...

Drafting room/Scrap Heap/Final Forge.

Will definitely play you on Poker (and royal flush yer ass!!!) when it is "Quenched"

!

C.

PS - am interested to hear your "infantry, cavalry, artillery" idea though.