Rook Poker: the daily puzzle and practice

How to play

Chess pieces, poker hands.

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The Rook attacks six cards and scores two pair. The Knight went first, so it blocks the third king.

1. Place your 3 pieces on the cards, one at a time, in any order. The card under a piece is covered.
2. Each piece scores the best poker hand from the cards it attacks, locked in the moment it lands. With 5 or more cards, the best 5 count. With fewer, only pairs, two pair, trips and quads score.
3. Rook and bishop lines stop at the first piece already on the board. Cards never block. Knights jump.
4. So order matters. Tap a card to see what a piece would score there, tap it again to place. Undo takes your last piece back (in the daily, until the third one lands).
5. The best possible score is worked out exactly, and every puzzle hides a better line than just grabbing the biggest hand each time.

Piece set: cburnett by Colin M.L. Burnett (CC BY-SA 3.0), as used on Lichess.