Wildcard 🃏

Wildcard is a card games application, built with Typescript / React, and hosted on GitHub Pages :

• Users can choose which game to play, and then compete against a dealer. The game engine will then implement the rules of the selected game.

• There is no betting functionality within the games as it stands, so in the poker game players are currently given the optiion to check in each round.

• The app uses the Deck of Cards API to initialise, shuffle & draw cards for each game, and to source the images rendered in the app.

Games

BlackJack

• Each game starts with a set of 6 freshly shuffled decks

• The scoring algorithm operates as the game progresses.

  • Aces are automatically managed to give the player / dealer the largest score without exceeding 21 where possible.

  • As yet, players cannot split hands when dealt a pair, this will be looked at in an update for the game though.

  • As betting is not part of the game, there is no "double down" feature.

• A game ends when the player is bust or chooses to stick.

  • If blackjack is drawn by the player / dealer, the game is ended with that hand winning.

• The dealer is set a minimum card total of 18, which is triggered once the player decides to stick.

Texas Hold Em

• This game starts with 1 freshly shuffled deck on the table

• The scoring algorithm will determine the best hand available for the player & dealer given the cards on the table and in hand.

  • The evaluation functionality is still being developed, and while the majority of hands & games will be scored correctly, there are cases where the application will declare the wrong winner.

• A game ends when the player checks after the final card has been laid.

  • the app will display a winner banner on the winning side of the table.

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