Chinese Poker

Winning all three rows against the same opponent in a single round. You collect a bonus on top of the per-row points — 3 by default, configurable from 0 to 10 in Settings. The "ScOOP" sound effect you'll hear at showdown signals one or more scoops happened.

• Awesomo — plays the mathematically optimal expected-value line. Use as the yardstick.
• Bender — back-loading scoop chaser. Sacrifices the front to pile strength into the back, chasing the +3 bonus.
• HAL — cautious pair-in-front specialist. Plays it safe, takes the small wins.

All three use the same trained neural-network evaluator under the hood, but with different personality weights that bias which rows they value and how aggressively they pursue scoops.

Each round, the app computes what the EV-optimal bot (Awesomo) would have scored with your dealt cards against the same opponent arrangements. Your Skill points for that round are max(0, your delta − Awesomo's delta + 1):

• Match Awesomo's optimal play → 1 point
• Beat him by N → N + 1 points
• Underperform → 0 (no penalty)

Skill points only ever go up. Visible in the Player page along with your matched-or-beat percentage, current streak, and longest streak.

Hidden by default. Open Settings, flip on Show hint button, and a wand-and-stars button appears in the action row during the setting phase. Tapping it asks the AI to suggest the best arrangement for your dealt cards; tapping again cycles through the next-best alternatives, each annotated with its expected value.

Hint rounds don't count for skill stats. Confirming an unedited hint suggestion marks the round as practice — the showdown still plays out and you see the deltas, but nothing is added to your skill score, per-bot record, streaks, or triple counters. Make any manual edit to the suggested arrangement before confirming and the round counts as your own play.

A hand where the rank ordering breaks — your front beats your middle, or your middle beats your back. Fouled hands lose every pairwise comparison automatically, so it's almost always wrong to submit one. The app will warn you before you confirm.

That's the standard rule across most Chinese Poker variants. With only 3 cards, the strongest possible front is three of a kind (with a 22.1× scoop multiplier on the win probability vs a high-card front). Players sometimes intentionally dump weak cards in the front to pour strength into the middle and back — that's the whole game.

Yes. The app makes no network calls of any kind. Everything happens on-device — including the AI computation, which runs a tiny ~66 KB neural network locally with no servers involved. Play on the subway, on a flight, anywhere.

Async multiplayer (play turns at your own pace, like Words With Friends) is on the roadmap. No timeline yet. The current single- player experience against three AI opponents is the entire game for now, and it's free.

Email support@lincopia.com with a short description and, if you can, a screenshot or screen recording. Knowing your device model + OS version is helpful but not required.

No ads. A future version may include an optional non-consumable "tip jar" purchase for players who want to support development — no functional change either way. The full game is and will remain free.