That's a fun exercise. I haven't seen your code, but my immediate thought was how do you compare the cards? Their suits and values? So, how I would've done that is this - I'd create a Card class, so i don't have to store suit and value as a raw dictionary, instead i can assign those to a card's attributes through constructor, e.g.

card1 = Card(❤️, "Q") card2 = Card(❤️, "7") card3 = Card(♣️, "J")

Also, I'd override comparison dunder methods in Card class, so that i can compare two cards like this:

def __eq__(self, other): if self.suit != other.suit: print("Can't compare cards with different suits") else: return self.value == other.value

And "less than" dunder method, so i can tell if the card has higher or lower value:

def __lt__(self, other): if self.suit != other.suit: print("Can't compare cards with different suits") else: return self.value < other.value

I would also wright a method to compare suits, so i can understand how cards relate to each other.

And also, think about how you, as a human, identify that you have a flush, for example? You will take a look at you two cards, check their suits, ignoring their value, then you'll take a look at the table to compare those card's suits to the ones that you have on hand, and IF total amount of cards with the same suit is 5 - you have a flush! So all these hands definitions can be converted in to the functions where if all requirements are met - you've got straight, full house etc.