can anyone determine if this game would be beatable?

[college kid]

Sure. Just get a chart of the ranking of every possible hand, multiway. Then pick the best two of the four--though you might actually need a computer to tell you what to pick, since it would occasionally change. But if you just go to the wizard of odds and print out the multiway hand ranking chart, you'll probably be playing bette rthan your opponents, which means you have an edge. Personally, I'd rather gas myself and die horribly and painfully if it was the only other choice besides playing that game, but yes, the game is beatable given clueless opponents.