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Input the rows and columns of the finished board, and indicate if there is a flush or straight, respectively. (e.g. "tJQKAyy" or "245J4nn"))
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My current high score: 63

Created June 2023
"Poker Squares" is fun solo card game that I found awhile ago; it's simple, smart, and fun. You flip down five cards face up as your starting row, and pull one card from the deck to add to a column of your choice, with the goal being to make a 5x5 board of good horizontal and vertical poker hands. (Another way [the classic way] to play is just by placing each card you pull down anywhere in the 5x5 grid that doesn't already have a card in it)

The only problem was that manually scoring the game and scouring the board for hands took much longer than actually playing the game, so I promptly decided to make a program that would do it for me.

I spent about 4-5 hours making a python script that had the hands-to-be-scored hard-coded into it, which worked superbly, then I made another python program that had CLI functionality (with the ability to input the rows and columns [the poker hands] as command-line parameters), and then putting my python script on a webpage (first using pyscript, then abandoning that for javascript with the help of a python to javascript converter [with minor tweaks]), AND FINALLY modifying the web page/script so that I could input the hands on a website, press "calculate scores", and have it all done for me!

Voila.