Four-Player Trick-Taking Card Game

Also reported as Four-Player Poker Card Game · Poker Game with Four Players

Phone ScreenScale AILast reported August 2026Low Frequency

Reported: 2× across candidate reports
First seen: July 2026
Last reported: August 2026
Reported outcome: unknown

Problem Overview

A phone-screen problem in three graded parts, built on classes you are given: Card, Deck and Player. Part 1 — Shuffle, deal and sort. Shuffle the deck, deal it evenly to four players, and sort each player's hand by suit and rank. Here: deal(deck), after Deck().shuffle(seed); hands sort with the…

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Approach and trade-offs — what passing candidates did, and the mistakes that sink people

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