RangeRead
Follow a real pro poker hand and name your opponent's two hole cards in six guesses.
Every day: One hand from a real professional poker game a day, the same for everyone: follow the betting and name the opponent's two hole cards in six guesses. New puzzle: Midnight New York time.
RangeRead is a daily poker puzzle. You watch a real hand from a professional game from one player's seat, street by street, and use the betting to work out the two cards your opponent holds. Coloured tiles after each guess show which ranks and suits are right, and at the end you see how the pros played it.
About RangeRead
RangeRead turns hand reading, the poker skill of narrowing what an opponent could hold, into a daily guessing game. Each day the site serves one hand from a real professional game. You sit in the hero's seat: you see your own hole cards, the board as it comes, and every bet, check and call, with the players' names and stack sizes.
Guesses come with the streets. You get one guess before the flop, one on the flop, one on the turn and three on the river, six in all. After each guess the tiles turn green for an exact card, yellow for the right rank in the wrong suit, grey for a rank they do not hold, and red for a card already on the table or in your own hand. Early guesses are hard; the point is to let the betting shrink the range as the hand goes on.
When the hand is over you see the opponent's real cards and can watch the action again, and the game keeps your win rate and streak. You can choose to have the betting play out one move at a time or all at once.
It suits poker players who want daily practice at reading ranges, and Wordle players who like a deduction game with a different kind of clue.
How to play RangeRead
- Open RangeRead to load the day's hand and read your own hole cards.
- Watch the pre-flop action and make your first guess of the opponent's two cards.
- Read the tiles: green exact, yellow right rank wrong suit, grey rank not held, red already shown.
- Guess again on the flop and turn, and up to three more times on the river, as the betting narrows their range.
- See their real hand, replay the action and share your result.
Tips
- Use the pre-flop action to rule out whole groups of hands: a call and a raise mean different ranges.
- Cards on the board and in your hand can never be theirs, so do not waste a guess on them.
- A yellow tile tells you the rank; spend the next guess on the likeliest suit given the board.
- Checks on later streets often mean a medium hand or a missed draw rather than a monster.
- Think about suited draws when the board shows two or three of one suit.
Questions
When is there a new hand?
Every day at midnight New York time, the same moment for every player wherever they are.
How many guesses do I get?
Six: one each pre-flop, on the flop and on the turn, and three on the river.
Are the hands real?
Yes. Each puzzle is a hand from a real professional game, and you can watch how it was played at the end.
What do the colours mean?
Green is an exact card, yellow the right rank but wrong suit, grey a rank not in their hand, and red a card already on the table or in your hand.
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