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Choosing Among Seven Games

Choose among poker, Zha Jin Hua, Dou Dizhu, Ka Wu Xing, Guandan, Gomoku and Chinese Chess by player count, information and learning goals.

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Does BluffKing Sell Cheats? Why Trust Its Anti-Cheat Defenses?

A player asked about cheat tools. BluffKing does not sell them. Here is how dealing proofs, public source code and a security bounty let you examine that claim—and where their limits lie.

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A Cheating Report: The Current Hand and 3,865 Historical Hands

We reviewed the ongoing hand, three preceding hands and all 3,865 saved hands for the reported player. Deal and settlement checks passed; players can also verify the proof themselves.

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Do 2,673 Shared Hands Mean Collusion? A Report Reviewed

We checked 4,248 distinct hands across two reports, comparing matched-pressure folds and all-in contests. Here is why the records did not substantiate collusion.

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Texas Hold’em: Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Zero-knowledge proof verification is now live for default Hold’em. Learn how encrypted cards, player randomness and two proofs let you check a deal on your device while keeping unshown cards private.

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BluffKing Security Bounty Audit: All Three Targets Are Defended

Three Claude audit agents each took one bounty target, board prediction, hidden hole cards and settlement tampering, and Codex tried to break their verdicts: no qualifying exploit in any reviewed path, all three in-hand targets defended in both dealing modes, plus one out-of-scope see-then-back-out fairness bug found and fixed the same day.

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Two Leopards in Five Zha Jin Hua Hands: Is the Deck Rigged?

We checked the shuffle code and all 11,397 Zha Jin Hua hands: Leopards appear at a rate statistically consistent with theory, and they feel common because a winning Leopard is shown and collects a bonus.

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