13. Card Games: Higher or Lower, Video Poker, and Blackjack
Card games predate computers, but they have taken on a whole new life thanks to computer games. For instance, solitaire games are much easier and more fun when a computer does the dealing and keeps everything organized.
In this chapter, we’ll look at three card games, starting off simply with Higher or Lower. Then we look at two casino-style games in Video Poker and Blackjack.
In addition to learning how to represent a deck of cards in Flash, we also cover the concept of timed events. Instead of dealing out sets of cards all at once, we use ...
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