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2023-08-24T08:46:25Z

Mikec: major changes, rewrite rules and add royalties

===Overview===

The goal of the game is to achieve more points than your opponent(s) by winning more hands also known as rows and/or by collecting royalties on premium hands without fouling. 
Each player plays cards across three hands, the top, middle, and bottom, such that at the end there are 3 cards in the top, 5 in the middle and 5 in the bottom; 13 total in the completed hand, legal or not. The best front hand is three aces. Straights, flushes, and straight flushes are not legal front hands.

===Fouling/mis-setting===
 At the end of each round, you check the hand requirement for all players (by default Top hand ≤ Middle hand ≤ Bottom hand). If some player(s) don’t meet them, the hand is considered fouled/mis-set and has zero hand ranking.
So if no players meet them, all players will score 0 for the round.

===Pineapple===
 In Pineapple OFCP, instead of one card per round per player as in Original OFCP, each player is dealt three cards per round, playing two and discarding one.

===Scoring===
For each line, top/middle/bottom, we compare the hand rank for each pair of players. The highest hand wins 1 point, plus the royalties of the hand, minus the royalties of the other player.
If one player defeats another on all three lines, he/she gets a bonus of +3 points.
The defeated player loses points equal to the gain of the other player.  If one player loses all their 100 starting points, they lose immediately.

=== Fantasyland===
After normal scoring is complete, if any player has a pair of queens or better in the top line, they enter in fantasyland which is a bonus round where they can look at 15 cards and arrange them as they want. Remaining cards after completing a 13-card hand are discarded. On a fantasyland round, the other players play and points are scored as usual. The requirement to stay in fantasyland is higher, 3 of a kind/full-house/4 of a kind, for top/middle/bottom respectively.

===Progressive Fantasyland===
 Players receive one additional card for each hand rank above QQ when they enter Fantasyland. Remaining cards after completing a 13-card hand are discarded.
In 2-7 lowball middle, the condition changes into building KK or better in the top row and 75432 in the middle row with the same hand.

===Hand Rankings===
A>K>Q>J>T>9>8>7>6>5>4>3>2.

High card (K9652): lowest possible hand. In ties, you take the value of the highest card, then the second highest...

Pair (KK652): two identical cards. In ties, you compare first the value of the pair (TT652>99AKQ)

Two Pair (KK662): two pairs. In ties the highest pair wins (AA662>JJ773)

3 of a Kind (KKK52): three identical cards. In ties you compare this trio first

Straight (K9JQT): five consecutive cards. In ties you compare the highest card (AKQJT9>JT987>T9876>5432A)

Flush: five cards of the same suit. In ties you compare the highest card

Full House (KKK55): 3 of a kind + pair. In ties you compare the value of the trio first, then the pair (33322>222AA)(666TT>66622)

4 of a Kind (KKKK2): four identical cards. In ties you compare the 4 of a kind first (33334>2222A)

Straight Flush: flush + straight

Royal Flush: Ace high Straight Flush

===Royalties===
====Front/Top====

66 1 /
77 2 /
88 3 /
99 4 /
TT 5 /
JJ 6 /
QQ 7 /
KK 8 /
AA 9 /

222 10 /
333 11 /
444 12 /
555 13 /
666 14 /
777 15 /
888 16 /
999 17 /
TTT 18 /
JJJ 19 /
QQQ 20 /
KKK 21 /
AAA 22

====Middle====

Three of a kind 2

Straight 4

Flush 8

Full house 12

Four of a kind 20

Straight flush 30

Royal flush 50

====Bottom/Back====
Straight 2

4 Flush 4

Full house 6

12 Four of a kind 10

20 Straight flush 15

30 Royal flush 25

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