In a certain card game, one of the hands dealt contains:

1. Exactly thirteen cards.
2. At least one card in each suit.
3. A different number of cards in each suit.
4. A total of five hearts and diamonds.
5. A total of six hearts and spades.
6. Exactly two cards in the "trump" suit.

Which one of the four suits -- hearts, spades, diamonds, or clubs -- is the "trump" suit?

for h in range(1,7):
  hdsc = set([h, 5-h, 6-h, h+2])
  if len(hdsc) == 4 and 2 in hdsc:
    print 'H: %d D: %d S: %d C: %d' % (h, 5-h, 6-h, h+2)
 

 

 

This produces the answer

H: 4 D: 1 S: 2 C: 6

So Spades is the trump suit.

Edited on March 4, 2014, 11:08 am

Posted by tomarken on 2014-03-04 10:56:28