Catch valid Texas Hold'em Hole Cards (A K Q J T 2-9, optional "o" for different cards)

@kireitonsi⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡PAR 33Groups & backrefs · Lookarounds15 players · 15 solves · 55 views

About this hunt

5 words to catch, 5 words to spare, plus hidden checks. It uses backreferences and lookarounds. Added 22 Oct by @kireitonsi.

Academy course Guide section

Comments · 23

SebastianSteffenMod· 7d
Whew, good one! Had to read through the Texas Hold'em Wiki page to better get the pattern - made me wonder if puzzle authors should be allowed to link to Wiki. Also, I managed to lower it to 30 with some degeneracy - may want to include a few more hidden test cases. :)
- pat_match· 7d
  that wiki page helped me too
- kireitonsiAuthorMod· 7d
  Huh, I had a valid general purpose solve at 30 that I deliberately didn't set as par to make it slightly easier. I'm curious as to what your solution cheesed around, if you'd like to share.
  - kireitonsiAuthorMod· 7d
    With peak degeneracy I'm able to get it down to 23 characters, but only because I know the hidden words
  - SebastianSteffenMod· 6d
    Replying to @kireitonsi
  - kireitonsiAuthorMod· 6d
    Replying to @SebastianSteffen
    2 to Queen??? wthhhh
  - kireitonsiAuthorMod· 6d
    Replying to @kireitonsi
    there's not much i can do now in way of editing the uploaded puzzle, but i'd probably patch out that solution if i could. that's quite the hack!
MrDebuggerMod· 11d · edited
- kireitonsiAuthorMod· 10d
ember· 10d
finally get what the o is for. 43 lol
- slate_lynx· 9d
  Same, I had to look up offsuit.
nyx_dev· 11d
Why is 10o out? Isn't T just 10?
- null_ptr· 10d
  one letter per card
null_ptr· 10d
77o got me twice lol
- greedy_star· 7d
  @null_ptr same, it ate my morning
slate_lynx· 9d
Does the order matter? 29 vs 92?
- regexwizard· 9d
  board doesn't seem to care
anchor_anne· 9d
forgot the $ first, classic. still 32
loops· 8d
went all in, lost to 77o
- null_ptr· 8d
  should've folded preflop
fern_otter· 8d
kept catching 2o somehow. 34 in the end
golfer_42· 7d
33 on the nose. that 30 on the board hurts
- regexwizard· 7d
  @golfer_42 31 here, cant see 30 either