Card Games and Poker Hands
The card game is the Scale AI phone screen candidates mention most. Many get a short spec of the game ahead of time, and on the day there's about an hour to build to it. Poker is a common version. You build it in parts, and a test suite checks each one.
Watch the small rules, because they change between problems. Card notation and wildcard rules shift from one part to the next, so read each statement before you carry code over from the last one.
Build the rank count and the suit count once, then check categories from strongest to weakest with one small function per category. Later parts read those same counts, so if you set it up that way in part one, they go in without a rewrite.
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