spoon-business: All right! We've got Cards!

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[[ Now that we've got these decks of Cards, we might as well play a game with
them. I now present the rules for a variant of Poker that I call Pooker. ]]

\begin{proposal}
\title{Pooker}
1. Create a rule entitled "Pooker: Definitions" with the following text:

Pooker is a game played with Nomic Cards. The object of the game is to exchange
Cards with other Players so that you have the best Poker Hand or combination of
Poker Hands.

A Trade is the process by which two Players exchange a specified number of
Cards. In a Trade, the dealer takes the Cards which one Player wishes to trade
to the other Player and changes their ownership to the other Player, thus
adding them to the other Player's hand. E then takes an equal number of Cards
which the other Player wishes to trade and changes their ownership to the first
Player in the same way. Both Players involved in a trade must trade an equal
number of Cards.

A game of Pooker ends in a Showdown, in which all Cards in play are revealed
and a prize of a certain number of Points goes to the Player
or Players with the highest total Score of Poker Hands. After a Showdown, all
Cards are returned to the Deck to start a new game of Pooker.

2. Create a rule entitled "Pooker: Trading" with the following text:

Any Player who has one or more Cards may arrange a Trade with any other Player
who has one or more Cards. They do this by making offers and counter-offers
with each other privately, and then notifying the Dealer of the Trade they wish
to make - both which Card or Cards e will give, and which Card or Cards e plans
to recieve.

The Dealer must be notified of the same trade by both Players involved
in the trade. The Players also must each pay the Dealer a transaction fee of
one Point [[you'll notice that there's no other way for the Dealer to get
Points from this game]].

3. Create a rule entitled "Pooker: the Showdown" with the following
text:

A Player may make a Motion to Show Cards at any time as long as no such Motion
is already pending. A Motion to Show Cards is a Secondary Approvable Motion
which passes by being voted for by a majority of Players. When a Motion to Show
Cards passes, a Showdown occurs. The Dealer then posts a message to a public
Forum including the Cards held by each Player and the highest-scoring
arrangement of each Player's Cards into Poker Hands.

Additionally, if a transfer of Cards (such as by Dealing) causes one Player to
own ten or more Cards, a Showdown automatically occurs.

The Player who has the highest total Score of eir Poker Hand(s) is awarded a
number of Points from the Bank equivalent to the total Score of eir Poker
Hand(s). If there is a tie for the highest Score, that number of Points is
given from the Bank and divided among the Player(s) involved in the tie.

4. Create a rule entitled "Pooker: Scoring" with the following text:

A Poker Hand is a set of one to five Cards owned by the same Player. A Player
may arrange eir Cards into more than one Poker Hand if it would result in a
higher Score or if e owns more than five Cards.

Poker Hands are scored as follows (statements at the top take precedence):

If a Poker Hand contains five Cards of the same Rank, it is a Five of a Kind,
and has a Score of 80.

If a Poker Hand contains five Cards with the Ranks Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and
10, and those Cards are all of the same Suit, it is a Royal Flush, and has a
Score of 80.

If a Poker Hand contains five Cards with consecutive Ranks which are all of the
same Suit, it is a Straight Flush, and has a Score of 70.

If a Poker Hand contains four Cards of the same Rank, it is a Four of a Kind,
and has a Score of 60.

If a Poker Hand contains three Cards of one Rank and two cards of another, it
is a Full House, and has a Score of 50.

If a Poker Hand contains five Cards of the same Suit, it is a Flush, and has a
Score of 40.

If a Poker Hand contains five Cards with consecutive Ranks [[such as
7-8-9-10-Jack]], it is a Straight, and has a Score of 35.

If a Poker Hand contains three Cards of the same Rank, it is a Three of a Kind,
and has a Score of 25.

If a Poker Hand contains two Cards of one Rank and two cards of another Rank,
it is Two Pair, and has a Score of 15.

If a Poker Hand contains two Cards of the same Rank, it is a Pair, and has a
Score of 5.

If a Poker Hand contains none of the above, its Score is 0.
\end{proposal}

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Rob Speer