Show HN: LiSkat: Free real-time Skat with Elo and bots (liskat.com)

3 points by iNic ↗ HN
Skat is a ~200 year old 3-player German trick-taking card game. I built a free site to play it online, solo against bots or with other people (matchmaking and Elo).

The bots are what I keep tinkering with. Card play is a linear model over hand features, with the weights tuned by self-play search. Bidding and declaring use Monte-Carlo rollouts.

No signup needed to practice against the bots. It's all TypeScript (Svelte plus a small WebSocket server).

GitHub: https://github.com/nic-kup/liskat

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Nice bot architecture. How do you handle the Skat card phase committing blind before seeing the full hand seems like the hardest part to model.