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Ultimate Puzzle-28

over 9 years

Level-1

This is created by me. This puzzle is a part of a game.

Rules of the game-

1- If a player plays a card of a particular suit, everybody has to play the same suit. If any player does not have the card of the same suit, he can play any other card.

2- There is a trump suit, which is decided by the highest bidder at the start of the game

3- In each hand (one card played by each of the 4 players), the hand goes to the player who played the biggest card of the suit that was played by the first player. If any player plays a card of the trump suit, then the hand belongs to that player.

4- A trump card can be played only when the player does not have any card of the suit which the first player has played.

5- If two players play the trump suit, then the higher card wins the hand.

6- After each hand is played, the next hand is started by the winner of the previous hand.

Following is the scenario currently

Giga

1- Jack of Spades

2- 8 of Spades

3- 7 of Spades

4- 8 of Hearts

Soda

1- Queen of Hearts

2- 9 of Spades

3- Q of Spades

4- Ace of Diamonds

Dave

1- King of Clubs

2- King of Spades

3- 10 of Spades

4- King of Diamonds

Kerry

1- 8 of Clubs

2- Jack of Diamonds

3- 9 of Hearts

4- Queen of Diamonds

Card Information- Highest to Lowest

1- Jack- 3 points

2- 9- 2 points

3- Ace- 1 point

4- 10- 1 point

5- King- 0 point

6- Queen- 0 point

7- 7- 0 point

8- 8- 0 point

Therefore, Jack is the highest card, and 8 is the lowest.

For example-

If Giga plays Jack of spades, and every other player plays cards of spades, then the hand will go to Giga and all the points in the hand will belong to Giga

In the given scenario

Giga and Dave are a team, and Soda and Kerry are a team. Therefore, the points of a team will be added together in the end.

Clubs is the trump.

What is the maximum number of points that Giga and Dave can make out of this game, and what sequence of cards they need to play, given that the first hand will be played by Giga and that in this particular scenario, all of them know the cards of all the players.

More puzzles will follow after this one is solved.

over 9 years
5 points
over 9 years
Bump
over 9 years
what are you talking about noavi?
over 9 years
i think soda should play ace in about turn 4 which makes him win the board and get +2 club cards kerry will bid about 50 tokens into turn 5.0 but because giga decided to call she loses the money and soda wins the game. gg.
over 9 years
This is too good. So bumping for those who missed
over 9 years
This one should be easy. You have to assume the opponents will play optimally.
deletedover 9 years
Trump is clubs.

Anyway, I have worked out Giga can not begin the game with the J of Spades, or else he will lose 9 of the possible 12 points in the first two hands. So he has to start with either of the low spades, or the heart. I haven't gotten any further haha
over 9 years
what is a trump card?
deletedover 9 years

panthero says

the trump is clubs, if i forgot to mention.


Oh okay, algood. And also, I jsut realised a flaw in my scenario above anyway haha
over 9 years
the trump is clubs, if i forgot to mention.
deletedover 9 years
Okay, well, I have come up with a scenario where Giga and Dave can get 10/12 possible points with Spades as trumps.
deletedover 9 years
So we need to figure out which trumps would be best for Giga and Dave as well?
over 9 years
Nope, not actually. It is quite different. Try and solve the puzzle.
deletedover 9 years
So it's pretty much like 500, except different order of card winning cards?