Question about scoring poker sets

That question is difficult to answer based on the info you gave. It sounds like you have a deck made up of suits only without rank (numbers). If so, how would a user make hands like straights that depend on rank.

What you would need to do is determine the probability for each possible hand based on your deck makeup. With that info you would be able to see how much harder it is to make a 2 pair vs. making a single pair and you could base your points on that.

For some good info on calculating the probability check out http://wizardofodds.com/poker. This side shows the probabilities for standard poker hands and describes how those probabilities were calculated.

You can easaly make straits with the cards even if you do not have numbers. You can use the individual ranks among the cards. In poker the best hand you can have is a royal straigh flush, in harts. Harts trufs the other cards. (Unless I have been missinformed) so a pair of harts should beat a pair of same numbers in any other color. Even if this is not used poker you can easaly use it in youre deck.

Just ranke one color higher than the others, then you will have a hirarcy in the 4 colors. And this can be used to create laders. And breake ties.

For the points just use the pokerpoints. The difrent hands are ranked and just apply 1 point to the lowes and increas with 1 point every step, two pais 2 points and so on. Then you should get youe points just fine.

What you describe is closer to poker solitaire than to regular poker, and in that regard you can't figure the odds using normal poker methodology. In poker, each hand has no relationship to each other, and players have no control over the cards they get. In your game (and poker solitaire), players have complete control over where they place their cards, giving them a lot of control over what hands are formed. This throws out the regular probability calculations.

E.G.: if we're using poker probability, then if there is a red card in play, I would throw a random card from my hand next to it - that's poker odds. But in your game, I could choose to throw a matching red card from my hand rather than a random one. That's not poker odds.

I like the idea of each card only being scored once, but at first glance that sounds like it will be hard to score any of the bigger combos because everyone will be worried about someone else scooping them. On the other hand, I guess that could apply some press-your-luck pressure. You need to get to playtesting if you haven't yet, heh.

NewbieDesigner! I think the idea sounds really cool and from what I understand it's almost like a hybrid between different classic card games and like the game Uno a bit (which actually is using the number and color system).

One thing though, Like hulken have been replying about as well: IF you would be interested in taking into account the probability anyway (can be a great way to add another parameter to the game) I agree with hulken with the wizardofodds site or you can even find info about it here: http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-strategy-articles/poker-odds

Again, I think this could actually add another layer to the game.

I think you are on to something though with how you value the score of the different possibilities. Maybe to add another exciting thing to it you could, say you have the color red, have "special cards" to make up combination's with. What I'm thinking like this is that if you can for a pair with say two 5's (if you were to use numbers), but these are "special" red 5's which can make the scoring for example look like this: Normal Pair - 1 point x 4.

Which you all the best on the project!