# Car talk puzzler picking the highest poker hand

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** board-card-word-game\
**Created:** [May 19, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-talk-puzzler-picking-the-highest-poker-hand/1030220 "2026-05-19T18:59:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-talk-puzzler-picking-the-highest-poker-hand/1030220/22 "2026-05-20T15:56:55Z")

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Discourse has revealed that this is quite the old puzzle.

> [@I swore I would never do this...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-swore-i-would-never-do-this/35042):
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> …but I have to. You see, I heard this riddle… No! WAIT! Come back! You see, I heard this riddle, and then I heard the answer. And I don’t believe it. I don’t think that the answer is really the answer. So, can you help me? Here it is: \*My wife and I were sitting at the kitchen table the other day, when she notices a deck of cards. It was from the night before, when I was teaching the boys how to play poker – trying to win back some of the money they keep borrowing from me. She says, “I’d li…

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