Chapter 644 True and False Rules

"Royal... Straight Flush?" Qi Xia frowned, "What exactly is it?"

"Specifically, it's a "straight flush", but the biggest card is "Ace." Qiao Jiajin said, "From "Ten" to "Ace", there are a total of five cards, and they are all of the same suit. This straight flush is the largest among all straight flushes, so it is called the "Royal Straight Flush." ​​"

Qi Xia looked at the monkey who was shuffling the cards across the table, and thought about it in combination with Qiao Jiajin's words.

Can a straight flush exist in this game?

This game uses traditional festivals and the twenty-four solar terms, and it also cleverly appears in four seasons. That is to say, if you really follow the rules of "straight flush", if you want to make the biggest card in this game, you should need five numbers, and these five numbers are all from the same season.

At this time, all the cards reappeared in Qi Xia's mind.

From "Lichun" to "Guyu" is a season.

From "Lixia" to "Dashu" is a season.

From "Beginning of Autumn" to "Frost Descent" is a season.

From "Beginning of Winter" to "Great Cold" is a season.

The calculation of this step is a bit complicated and took a while. Qi Xia turned all the cards into numbers in his mind one by one, and finally added twelve "festivals".

"Wait a minute... twelve festivals?"

Qi Xia frowned slightly, feeling that there seemed to be more than twelve traditional festivals in his memory, but why were some missing?

He listed the traditional festivals he could think of one by one.

Spring Festival, Lantern Festival.

Sheri Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival.

Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Zhongyuan Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Xiayuan Festival.

Finally, there are Laba and New Year's Eve.

Not counting the traditional festivals of various ethnic minorities, there are at least fourteen well-known festivals alone.

But why are there only twelve festivals in this deck of cards?

Were two festivals eliminated for some reason?

Qi Xia quickly locked on "Qingming Festival".

This festival is very interesting. In this "new moon", "Qingming Festival" will only have the word "Qingming" written on it like "Qixi Festival".

But "Qingming" is not only a festival, but also one of the 24 solar terms, so there is only one card with "Qingming" written on it, which can be taken out of the category of traditional festivals and is not considered one of the festivals, but as a solar term.

In this way, there is only one more festival, but which of the remaining festivals is completely different from the other festivals?

"Cold Food Festival..." Qi Xia slowly opened his eyes. In his memory, only the Cold Food Festival is completely different from other festivals.

All festivals have a clear date on a certain day in the lunar calendar, but the Cold Food Festival is not.

Its date is the 105th or 106th day after the winter solstice, or one or two days before the Qingming Festival every year.

For this special festival, the existence of "Cold Food Festival" cannot make the game go smoothly in the game that uses precise numbers to compare sizes, so it can only be abandoned.

In this way, there are twelve festivals left, plus all the solar terms, a total of thirty-six cards. Now all the cards are clear. It should be possible to roughly infer the "hidden cards" of the monkey through the "open cards" of everyone and the "public cards" in the center of the table, and the probability of winning is a little higher.

After listing all the solar terms and festivals in his mind, Qi Xia transformed them into groups of numbers in his mind.

The amount of calculation in this step is quite complicated and took him a lot of time.

Soon after, there were only a large number of numbers left in Qi Xia's mind. All the numbers were divided into four rows according to the seasons, one group each for spring, summer, autumn and winter.

But after counting all the cards, the situation is still a bit strange.

Combined with the "Royal Flush" mentioned by Qiao Jiajin at the beginning, although in theory a certain season can be regarded as a suit and a "flush" of that season can be made, Qi Xia actually found a strange problem after looking at all the dates of the four seasons.

No date number of a season can form a flush.

Since the first half of the year is "six-twenty-one", there are a lot of "six", "two", and "one" in the date, and the second half of the year is "eight-twenty-three", there will be a lot of "eight", "two", and "three".

The relatively monotonous numbers make the combination possibilities much less.

Qi Xia felt that the situation in front of him was a bit interesting. Although the ancients would never expect that one day in the future someone would use the dates of the 24 solar terms to gamble according to the rules of Texas Hold'em, they seemed to deliberately avoid the possibility of "straight flush".

Spring lacks "five", summer lacks "three", autumn lacks "six", and winter lacks "four".

In any case, it is impossible to have five numbers arranged from small to large in the same season, even if traditional festivals are added.

This interesting situation actually made Qi Xia feel a little wonderful, as if he was in contact with the generations who compiled the calendar thousands of years ago.

"Fist..." Qi Xia came back to his senses and asked Qiao Jiajin, "Except for "Royal Flush", what is the remaining size ranking? "

Qiao Jiajin imitated Qi Xia and touched his chin, then took his hand away in disgust, came back to his senses and said: "Royal Flush

Qi Xia nodded after hearing this, the flush situation could be ruled out.

"The same numbers in "straight flush" are the form of your win just now."

"Understood."

"And "four of a kind" means two hands, three fingers on the left hand and two fingers on the right hand. "In layman's terms, it is three plus two, one number has three straights and the other number has a pair."

"Okay."

"The next is "straight", which means you don't need to pay attention to the suit, as long as the numbers can be put together in a row of five. The next ones are from big to small, which are ordinary "three of a kind", "two pairs", and "one pair".

"After listening, Qi Xia quickly thought about the possibilities of various cards, and soon frowned: "It seems that the so-called "Texas Hold'em" rules cannot be applied in this game."

"What...?"

"Some combinations that are difficult to make in poker can be easily achieved in "new moon", such as "flush". "Qi Xia explained, "If you can draw a "Winter Solstice", then the four numbers "one, one, two, three" will all come from "Winter", and there is a great probability that they will form a "flush", so the weight of the flush should not be very high. "

"In that case..." Qiao Jiajin also narrowed his eyes, "There are indeed some variants of Texas Hold'em that will adjust the size rules due to the number of cards. "

"So what we have to do next is to make up various card types to let the monkey tell us the size of the card. "

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