Pineapple Lines 🍍

A daily solo puzzle based on Pineapple Open Face Chinese Poker.

You have three rows — top, middle and bottom — each holding five cards. Over five turns you are dealt five cards, place three of them into the rows (you may split them across rows) and discard the other two. After five turns all fifteen slots are full.

Each row scores the points for its five card poker hand, multiplied by the row's multiplier. The top row is the hardest to fill well, so it pays the most. Everybody gets the same cards in the same order each day.

The rows want to run weakest at the top to strongest at the bottom, and a row that beats the one below it is knocked down a multiplier:

Hands are compared in full, so a pair of aces beats a pair of twos. Rows show their full multiplier until they are seen to beat the row below, at which point it drops and turns red.

Scoring

Board

Hand