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Can you do coding stuff? Can you do coding pokergrams?

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Over at the excellent UKGameshows they’re running a slightly unusual competition. Basically, they want someone to code them a program that generates these things -

POKERGRAM

POKERGRAM

A “pokergram”, there. (I think I played a hand like this recently; I was the poor bastard with sixes full).   You can see the solution to this one, along with the details of the competition, over at the UKGameshows site. The winning entry gets a whopping £1000, or, if they prefer their prizes in dollars, a considerably less whopping $1500. Odd. Still, well worth winning either way; I’d do it myself if I had even the faintest clue how…