bcook/blackjack + blackjack-challenge: hint card with the book play (?)#99
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Pressing ? (or /, where ? needs shift) toggles a per-seat hint card: on your turn a line under the dealer's cards reads the book play for the hand as it stands - "hint: HIT - hard 14 vs 10". The state is render-only and per seat, so only the player who turned hints on sees them; a HINT touch chip makes the rune reachable on deck, and the turn prompt ends with [?]hint. Each table gets advice for ITS rules (strategy.go). Blackjack is standard six-deck basic strategy (S17, DAS, late surrender), degrading correctly when the ideal cell is unavailable: a 3-card 16 vs 10 hits (surrender window passed), a broke soft 18 vs 5 stands (can't double), capped 8,8 plays as hard 16. The insurance window answers too: the book never takes insurance. Blackjack Challenge adapts the chart to the variant: no surrender cells, doubles live on 3-card hands, pairs split by point value (K+10 is a pair of 10s), and the Five Card Trick dominates 4-card hands - a soft 4-card hand can't bust so hitting is a guaranteed instant win, hard 4-card 15-and-under chases the trick, and 4-card 17 vs 9/10/A hits because ties lose. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both scripts flip the hint card on right after the deal and capture it: the seeded hands read "hint: STAND - hard 20 vs 6" (the pair of tens plays as its total) and "hint: SPLIT - pair of 8s vs 4", verified by native replays of both seeds. The card toggles back off after the shot so every frame that follows is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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?(or/, for keyboards where?needs shift) to toggle a hint card: on your turn, a line under the dealer's cards shows the book play for the hand exactly as it stands —hint: HIT - hard 14 vs 10,hint: SPLIT - pair of 8s vs 6. Hints are per-seat, render-only state: only the player who turned them on sees them, and the line waits for card animations to land so it never spoils a card mid-flight. AHINTtouch chip is declared so the rune is reachable on deck, and the turn prompt now ends with[?]hintfor discoverability.Per-table advice, not one chart
Each game gets a
strategy.gotuned to its rules:Blackjack — standard six-deck basic strategy for this table (dealer stands on all 17, double after split, late surrender), with correct degradation when the ideal cell is unavailable:
Blackjack Challenge — the chart adapted to the variant:
Tests
~30 chart cells asserted across both games (variant twists first, shared spine after), availability-fallback tests, and toggle-and-render tests asserting the hint line appears on its row for the active viewer and clears on toggle-off.
go test,go vet, andlint-widthclean in both games.🤖 Generated with Claude Code