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The instructions for part 2 are missing info about how to handle the Four Of A Kind and a joker case. Wasted quite some time because I assumed that the remaining joker would remain unused, but turns out it turns your deck into Five Of A Kind.

Did everybody else just expect this?

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[โ€“] Tushta@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

There are no suits in this game, so no limit of how many cards of a same kind can be in a hand. Five of a kind is explicitly mentioned in the rules of the game.

[โ€“] reboot6675@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Why would the joker remain unused? The problem clearly says joker acts as the card that makes the hand strongest, so in this case, 5 of a kind.