From: Zed Lopez <zed.lopez@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T15:29:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ SOLUTION] Euchre Hands (#55)

On 11/22/05, Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@taylorwhite.com> wrote:
> Zed Lopez wrote:
> > A couple of my early attempts depended on the idea that the trump suit
> > absolutely determined the ranking of the cards, independent of knowing
> > anything else. It doesn't work, though.
>  > ...
> > Ordering the hand can't come without considering what suits are present.
>
> I addressed this by generating a suit order in alternating colors
> starting with the trump suit. Then some hand checking of the various
> possibilities showed me that the only adjustment needed was to swap the
> second and fourth suits if the hand was void in the second suit. Given
> that adjustment, any combination of suits in the hand should yield
> properly alternating colors.

I did it kind of bottom-up to your approach's top-down -- starting
with array of the suits present in the hand, in arbitrary order, I
moved the trump suit to the front. Then, if there were three or more
suits, if the second suit was the same color as the trump suit, I
swapped the second and third suits.