NSG Challenge : Parameterized Poker Squares

Copyright c © 2014, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Whereas DARPA has its “grand challenges”, ours are not so grand. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/ 41215/poker-squares, http://cs.gettysburg. edu/ ̃tneller/games/pokersquares http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/ 152237/sequential-placement-optimization-games You may consider that you have “won the game” if you total 200 (American) or 70 (English). Note that the single remaining Poker hand classification of “high card”, which does not fit any of the above classifications, scores no points.

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