Multiple decks & ordered discard pile

[phranklon]

I’m working on Hand & Foot, a variation of canasta. It calls for four decks.

What’s the easiest way to create a deck with four copies of each card?

Also, players are often able to draw from the top of the discard pile, (house rules debate if it’s the top 5 or top 7). The Cookbook talks about making a card sql table and mentions that most locations don’t need an order of cards their locations, but these would definitely need it. Also, when a player took the top 5 cards, could those entries in the dB in which these card were housed be able to be replaced/cleared?

[RicardoRix]

If you're using the stand deck of cards BD table, then think you can use one of the fields for card_location_arg. You are also free to add new fields to this table.

-- card_id
-- card_type == CardSuit as in 'Heart', 'Spade'
-- card_type_arg == CardValue as in 'King'
-- card_location == 'hand', 'deck', etc..
-- card_location_arg == PlayerId: id of the location, so if it's in the hand of a player. ** Use this for played order when 'played'.

[tchobello]

hi...

Have a look at Deck : http://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/Deck

if you want 4 decks, 'nbr' is 4 like 4 instances of each card.

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       // Create cards
        $cards = array();
        foreach( $this->colors as  $color_id => $color ) // spade, heart, diamond, club
        {
            for( $value=2; $value<=14; $value++ )   //  2, 3, 4, ... K, A
            {
                $cards[] = array( 'type' => $color_id, 'type_arg' => $value, 'nbr' => 1);
            }
        }

        $this->cards->createCards( $cards, 'deck' );

[apollo1001]

Agree with the others:
Deck component (server side)
Stock component (client side)

[phranklon]

Thank you all for the suggestions.

[phranklon]

Follow-up question,

And to add jokers to this deck, can I just make a separate img file and add those cards to the deck and stock? or would it be easier to modify the cards jpg to have jokers on a new row?

[Victoria_La]

You should add the to existing jpg. Btw find something better than default one from hearts, this one really low res and not good overall

[phranklon]

will do. gotta find a good one with creative commons. Any suggestions where to look?

[Victoria_La]

Maybe this?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... ds-2.0.svg

[phranklon]

Thank you for the link, I'll definitely use these. They look good.

So just to be clear what I am doing in terms of adding jokers...

When I create the stock using the jpg (in which the Jokers are alone on a 5th row in the same columns as the 2's and 3's), I still reference the entire row as having 13 images just like the first 4. However, since I will only list values 2 and 3 on the 5th row among the "create cards" coding in the game.php file, those blanks won't exist in my deck, right? If I am right, would anyone be so kind as to tell me if my game.php I created below is written correctly?

My stock code would look like this in .js:

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            // Create cards types:
            for (var color = 1; color <= 5; color++) {
                for (var value = 2; value <= 14; value++) {
                    // Build card type id
                    var card_type_id = this.getCardUniqueId(color, value);
                    this.playerHand.addItemType(card_type_id, card_type_id, g_gamethemeurl + 'img/cards.jpg', card_type_id);
                }
            }

My game.php would look like this creating a deck with Jokers:

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// Create cards
        $cards = array ();
        for ($color = 1; $color <= 4; $color ++) {
        // spade, heart, diamond, club
            	for ($value = 2; $value <= 14; $value ++) {
                //  2, 3, 4, ... K, A
                	$cards [] = array ('type' => $color,'type_arg' => $value,'nbr' => 4 );
			// 208 cards total 52 card deck times 4
		}
        }
	for ($color = 5) {
	//Joker "suit" (row on img file)
		for ($value = 2; $value <= 3; $value ++) {
		// red joker, black joker
			$cards [] = array ('type' => $color, 'type_arg' => $value,'nbr' => 4 );
			// 8 cards total: 4 red jokers, 4 black jokers
		}
	}

	// 216 cards total
        $this->cards->createCards( $cards, 'deck' );