Poker Square

Poker Square

Poker Square (sometimes known either by its plural or Poker Solitaire) is a solitaire card game with a very unusual objective: to build the best poker hand using just 25 cards from the deck.

The game starts with placing a card onto a space in a 5x5 grid. Placing cards are done one at a time and once a card is placed on the grid, it can no longer be moved.

Once all 25 cards are dealt, points are scored on hands formed horizontally or vertically. The number of points depend on the hierarchy of poker hands. There are two systems of scoring: The English and the American point systems. The English system reflects the difficulty of getting the hands in the game; the American system reflects the difficulty of getting the hands in actual poker. The two systems rate the hands' scores as follows:

The points scored from each hand are added to the total score. Sloane Lee and Gabriel Packard suggest (in their book "100 Best Solitaire Games", ISBN 1-58042-115-6) that to win one must score at least 200 points in the American system or 70 in the English system. Because of the application of the point system, this solitaire is more prevalent as a computer game.

Take the image above for instance. Horizontally, the five hands formed were two full houses (jacks full of aces and nines full of sevens), a four-of-a-kind (four eights), Three tens, and a two-pair (sixes and fives). Vertically, four flushes (one for each suit) and a pair of fours are scored. The player therefore scores a total of 197 points (American system) or 66 points (English system).

Poker Shuffle

There is also a version of Poker Square called Poker Shuffle or Switch-a-roo Poker Solitaire. It is played like Poker Square except when a card is placed on the grid, it can still be moved until all 25 cards are set. This gives flexibility as the premature rearrangement of the cards can still give better hands on the grid than on Poker Square. It is scored like that of Poker Square and Lee and Packard's book states that the winning score is 120 points in the English system or 310 points in the American system.

erpent Poker Solitaire

Solsuite also included yet another version called Serpent Poker Solitaire. It is played like Poker Square except in placing cards, a card must touch another card horizontally or vertically. Hands are score much the same way.


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