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Open-Face Chinese Pineapple poker
OFCEdge Pineapple OFC Solver Classic · Progressive · Ultimate + jokersAny street. Any seat. Heads-up or three-handed.
Any street, any seat, heads-up or three-handed. Set up any position and deal the pull. OFCEdge ranks your placements by EV in points, with royalties and fantasy land counted.
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K♦ on top, 2♣ 4♣ in the middle, 8♦ T♦ in the back, and you pull K♠ A♥ A♣. Kings on top, or the aces?
OOPTo act
Rank 1 of 27
+4.01
EV in points
Best
DiscardA♥
Ranked placementsfor OOPEVvs best
Questions it answers
First pull · Heads-up Ultimate
−0.55 The solver’s answer: yes. K♦ on top beside the K♠ with the 9♦ in the back, discarding the 2♥, ranks first. Keeping the K♦ in the middle ranks 7th of 27, 2.59 behind.
Fantasy land · Progressive Jokers
+104.85 The solver’s answer: no. Trip queens on top, an ace-high flush in the middle and a six-high straight flush in the back ranks first, with 43 points of royalties, staying in fantasy land. The royal-flush arrangement makes 36 and is 16.22 behind.
Hand review · Heads-up Classic
−0.95 The solver’s answer: 0.95 points. Ranked first: Q♣ A♦ in the middle, 2♥ discarded. The two lower-ranked placements in the hand cost 1.90 in all, and the hand was still a scoop: +15 points at the table, +25 with fantasy land.
See it solve
Recorded from the app. Seats are named as there: OOP acts first, MID second three-handed, IP last, and a three-handed EV is the total against both opponents. The Progressive and Ultimate examples run with Simulation on, which counts the fantasy lands that follow; with fixed fantasy-land values the three games would score alike.
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Fantasy land · Simulation
Staying in fantasy land makes getting there worth more than one hand’s bonus. With Simulation on, OFCEdge ranks each placement by this hand plus the fantasy-land hands and normal play that follow.
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Later fantasy-land hands are valued by a model, so their value is an estimate. In the app’s own small check (heads-up, a 17-card fantasy land, three stays used, eight test runs) the model came out about 19 to 21 points below a slower, fuller estimate, with ranges from about 67 points below to 20 to 24 above; it is not an error bound for any one spot. With Simulation on, the showdown counts only this hand’s points; with it off, its totals include the fixed value you set.
Inside the app
The boards sit on the felt beside the ranked placements, with the deck beside them. Here is each part up close.
Setup
Click a row, then pick cards from the deck. Or drag them, or type a row as AsKd9h.
Results
Each placement shows its cards, the discard, the EV in points and the gap to the best. Badges mark royalties and fantasy land.
Fantasy-land hands
Give a seat its fantasy-land cards and it sets 13 and picks the discards, ranked by EV; the 17-card hand in the examples took 1.3 seconds. It also solves your normal hand while an opponent is in fantasy land.
While it solves
Placements appear as they are scored and reorder as the search runs; Cancel keeps what it has found. On the recorded opening sets the first ranking came after 1.5 to 12 seconds of a 5- to 8-minute search; the three-handed pull shown here had updated seven times in a minute. Quick pulls rank with the result.
Settings
With Simulation off, fantasy land is worth the fixed points you set for each seat and top row.
Simulation
Counts the fantasy lands that follow. Set the limit on consecutive stays, or Unlimited, and where each player starts: in normal play, or in fantasy land with its cards and the stays already used.
Search
Compare
Pin a result, change something (here, one opponent card) and re-run with the same settings. Each placement shows its EV before, after and the difference.
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Play mode · hand review
Deal a full hand street by street. Solve any seat’s turn, apply a placement and play on. When the hand is over, the review shows what you played, what ranked best, and the points you gave up on each street.
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Showdown scoring
When the boards are full, the showdown settles each matchup row by row: rows won, scoops, royalties, fantasy-land bonuses and fouls. Three-handed, every seat gets a total, opponent by opponent.
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Pineapple OFC games
Open-Face Chinese poker (OFC) is played on three rows: three cards on top, five in the middle, five in the back. The back must be at least as strong as the middle, and the middle as the top, or the board fouls. All five games are Pineapple: five cards to start, then three a street, place two, discard one.
Classic Pineapple OFC keeps the original rule. Queens or better on top, or any trips, puts you in fantasy land with 14 cards.
In Progressive Pineapple, the better your top row, the more cards you get: queens earn 14, kings 15, aces and trips 16.
Ultimate Pineapple goes one step further: trips on top earn 17 cards, and a stay keeps the count you earned.
Progressive Jokers and Ultimate Jokers add two wild jokers to the deck, 54 cards in all. Fantasy land follows Progressive or Ultimate.
| Top row | Classic | Progressive | Ultimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 14 | 14 | |
| KK | 14 | 15 | 15 |
| AA | 14 | 16 | 16 |
| Trips | 14 | 16 | 17 |
| After a stay | 14 | 14 | same count |
Specs
Start from any point in the hand, heads-up or three-handed, and solve for any seat. Late pulls take seconds; an opening set takes minutes.
One slow three-handed Ultimate Jokers opening took 15 to 38 minutes on a 32-core server, depending on the memory it was allowed.
Laptop row: an Apple M2 with 8 cores and 8 GB, running OFCEdge 0.1.7’s solver with Ranked moves on 15 November 2026: 56 complete solves, each timed from the start of the search to its final ranking. They are the examples on this page, the earlier decisions of their hands, and scouting searches whose positions are not shown. The opening sets are heads-up Classic. The first pulls are heads-up Classic (11 to 98 seconds), heads-up Ultimate with and without Simulation (2 to 164 seconds; 2.3 seconds against an opponent in fantasy land) and three-handed Progressive (51 seconds). Two searches did not finish and are not counted: a heads-up Ultimate first pull with Simulation on, stopped after four and a half minutes, and All opening sets on the Classic opening set in the examples, stopped after nine minutes with 3 of its 232 sets fully scored (screening all 232 took under a minute).
The slow opening: one three-handed Ultimate Jokers opening set, middle seat to act, Simulation off, before and after version 0.1.7.
| Version and memory budget | Complete solve | First ranking | Solver threads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before 0.1.7 (0.1.6) | 7.4 hours | about 12½ minutes | 16 |
| 0.1.7, 24 GB | 15 minutes | 60 seconds | 16 |
| 0.1.7, 4 GB the default on a 16 GB computer | 21 minutes | 59 seconds | 16 |
| 0.1.7, 1 GB the default on an 8 GB, 8-core computer | 38 minutes | about 105 seconds | 8 |
These runs were on a shared 32-core Linux server with the app’s solver engine, not on a Windows PC or a Mac, measured from 12 to 14 November 2026 while another job kept the server busy, so the times are upper bounds for that machine. Read them for the size of the gain in version 0.1.7, not as times for your computer. For the same position, settings and seed, each 0.1.7 run returned the same final ranking as the version before it, bit for bit.
The memory budget is extra working memory the solver may use: by default half of your computer’s memory minus 4 GB, and never less than 1 GB. The solve needs memory of its own on top. With the 1 GB budget this opening used up to 4.4 GB, which is tight on an 8 GB computer; with the 24 GB budget it used up to 12 GB.
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Questions
OFCEdge costs $25,000 USD for two licenses. Each license includes all five games, heads-up and three-handed. Email [email protected] to purchase. No account or registration is required, and the solver runs on your own computer.
A Windows 10 or 11 PC (64-bit, Intel or AMD) or a Mac with Apple silicon. The Windows installer includes Microsoft WebView2 and installs it if needed; the portable ZIP needs WebView2 already installed. On an 8 GB computer a solve keeps its extra working memory to 1 GB by default, and larger machines get more. The Windows installer is not yet signed by a publisher, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The Mac app is not notarized by Apple, so the first time you open it, macOS asks you to approve it in System Settings under Privacy & Security.
On Windows, the first launch shows a request code. Send it to us and you get an activation code back; paste it in and click Activate OFCEdge. The activation is for that Windows account on that PC, and after that the app works offline with no login. Updates keep your activation. A new PC, a different Windows account or a reinstalled Windows may need a new one.
It depends on the street, the number of players, the search mode and your computer: late pulls take seconds, opening searches from a few minutes to much longer. On an Apple M2 laptop with 8 GB, in 56 complete solves with Ranked moves, a heads-up Classic opening set took 5 to 8 minutes, with the first ranking after 1.5 to 12 seconds; a first pull took 2 seconds to under 3 minutes heads-up and 51 seconds three-handed; later pulls took 6 seconds or less; and fantasy-land hands of 14 to 17 cards took 2 seconds or less. All opening sets, which scores every way to set the five, had fully scored 3 of 232 opening sets after nine minutes, so it can take hours. One slow opening, three-handed Ultimate Jokers with the middle seat to act, took 7.4 hours with the previous version. The current version took 15 minutes with a 24 GB memory budget and 21 minutes with 4 GB, both on 16 solver threads, and 38 minutes with the 1 GB budget and 8 threads that an 8 GB, 8-core computer gets by default. Those runs were on a shared 32-core Linux server, not on Windows or a Mac, and the 1 GB run used up to 4.4 GB, which is tight on an 8 GB computer.
No. OFCEdge ranks each placement by its EV in points, which it finds by dealing out the rest of the hand many times from the current position and scoring how each placement does. That makes the EVs estimates, not a game-theory proof. No margin of error is shown, and the progress figure shows how far the search has got, not how sure the answer is. With Simulation on, the value of later fantasy-land hands comes from a model and is an estimate too.
An OFC solver works out how to play a hand of Open-Face Chinese poker (OFC), here in its Pineapple form. You give OFCEdge a position: every board, the cards you have been dealt and what is known about the discards. It ranks your possible placements by EV (expected value) in points, the average number of points each one wins from here, with royalties and fantasy land counted.
Not quite. A calculator counts a hand that is already set: rows, scoops, royalties and fouls. A solver helps you decide how to set it. OFCEdge does both. Its showdown breakdown scores finished boards row by row, opponent by opponent, and a solve ranks the ways to place the cards you hold now by EV in points.
Pineapple OFC in five games: Classic, Progressive, Progressive Jokers, Ultimate and Ultimate Jokers, heads-up or three-handed. They differ in how many cards a fantasy-land hand gets (14 to 17), what happens when you stay, and whether two wild jokers are in the deck.
Yes. Every game works heads-up or three-handed, and you can solve for any seat. Three-handed, the showdown settles each matchup on its own and totals every seat. In the joker games the deck has 54 cards; a joker plays as whatever card makes the board best without fouling, and the showdown shows the card each joker played as.
Yes. Set a seat’s fantasy-land state in Simulation and give it the 14 to 17 cards. It ranks the 128 strongest arrangements it finds for setting 13 of them by EV in points, with royalties and the value of staying counted. It also solves normal hands while an opponent is in fantasy land.
Two ways. With Simulation off, fantasy land is worth the points you set in Settings for each seat and top row, paid by each opponent like a royalty, and the showdown totals include it; the defaults by seat are 10 and 8 heads-up, and 11, 8 and 9 three-handed. With Simulation on, which counts the fantasy lands that follow, you set a limit on consecutive stays, or Unlimited, and each player’s current fantasy-land state. Placements are then ranked by this hand plus the fantasy-land hands and normal play that can follow, while the showdown counts only the points won in this hand. Those future values are estimates from a model, and each result names the model it used.
Not as a quiz. Play mode deals a full hand street by street: solve any seat’s turn, choose a placement with the ranking on screen, the best one or another, and play on to the showdown. The hand review then grades each of your streets against that ranking, showing your placement beside the best-ranked one and the points you gave up.
Yes. A saved run is an .ofch file holding the position, the search settings, the finished results and the hand history, so you can reopen it without solving again. A position can also be copied as a short share string, starting OFC1., and pasted into another copy of the app.
Finish a board that does not foul with a pair of queens or better on top, or any trips. In Classic every fantasy-land hand is 14 cards. In Progressive, QQ earns 14, KK 15, and AA or trips 16. In Ultimate, QQ earns 14, KK 15, AA 16 and trips 17. Progressive Jokers and Ultimate Jokers follow Progressive and Ultimate. A fantasy-land hand gets all its cards at once: you set 13 and discard the rest.
In every game you stay with trips on top or quads or better in the back, on a board that does not foul. Classic and Progressive then deal 14 cards again. Ultimate deals the same number you just played, so a 17-card hand that stays gets 17 again. In the joker games a joker counts toward staying.