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Ask HN: Gin rummy strategies

A Hacker News user developing an AI-powered Gin Rummy trainer is struggling to program medium and hard difficulty bot strategies, as the AI continues to lose to the easy setting. The user seeks community recommendations for strategies to improve the AI's performance.

read1 min publishedJun 4, 2026

| |||||||||||| 14 points by | Hi HN, I am having AI build me a local Gin Rummy trainer and it cannot figure out medium and hard bot strategies, they keep losing to easy! The point of this is to help me learn so I don't really know how to advise it on strategies. Right now it's just looping through tests and modifying but it keeps not improving. Does anyone have any recommendations or guidance for strategies I could suggest to it? | ||||||||||| |

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