Poker Solitaire (Poker Squares)
The Layout:
Poker Solitaire (Poker Squares) requires you to turn up 25 cards from the stock one by one into a grid of five columns and five rows.
Objective:
To make as high a score as possible using five-card poker combinations.
How to Play:
Shuffle the pack and turn up cards one at a time. Place each cards within the framework of an imaginary five-by-five square of cards. Once you place a
card, you can’t move it. After you’ve played all 25 cards, tally your score. Total up twelve
Poker hands: the five columns, the five rows, and the two diagonals. A good score in
Poker Solitaire (Poker Squares) is 200.
Poker Solitaire (Poker Squares) Scoring:
| Hand |
American |
English |
| Royal flush |
100 points |
30 points |
| Straight flush |
75 points |
30 points |
| Four of a kind |
50 points |
16 points |
| Full house |
25 points |
10 points |
| Flush |
20 points |
5 points |
| Straight |
15 points |
12 points |
| Three of a kind |
10 points |
6 points |
| Two pair |
5 points |
3 points |
| One pair |
2 points |
1 point |
You can consider your self as having "won the game" if you total 200 (American) or 70 (English).
The Hands:
Poker Solitaire (Poker Squares) Tips:
You’ll increase your chances of making straights if you avoid putting an ace, 2, queen, or King in the center of the grid.
Don’t plan on lots of straight flushes, leave some chances open early in the play. Just don’t wait to long to convert three cards held for a straight flush into a possible straight hand or flush hand.
Variations:
Some players don’t count the two diagonal hands. For a two-player game, one player deals out the 25 cards, while the other player copies them with a separate deck. Each completes a similair Poker Solitaire (
Poker Squares) card gid. The location of each player’s five-by-five grid should be determined before hand.
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