Poker Square SoliTaire! Rules:

The Deal

Using one deck, the layout starts the game empty. The Stock flips over one card.

Stock

The face up card near the Stock must be played to the Poker hands or a Discard Pile. As each card is played, the Stock will automatically flip another card.

Layout

The 25 spaces may hold one card each and form 10 hands of 5 cards each (5 rows of cards and 5 columns of cards.) The card next to the Stock must be played to one of the Poker hands or one of the Discards.

Once a card is placed it may not be moved.

Discards

There are four spaces where cards may be placed that are not wanted in the Poker hands.

SoliTaireNetwork.com is liberal in the rules in providing these spaces. The actual game of Poker Square does not allow for discards. For a bigger challenge, try playing without the Discards.

Scoring

Scoring for the various Poker hands is based on the relative difficulty of obtaining a certain hand in a regular game of Poker.

Each of the 10 hands are scored as follows:

HAND	POINTS		EXAMPLE
Royal Flush	100		A, K, Q, J, 10 of same suit
Straight Flush	75		9, 8, 7, 6, 5 of same suit (5 sequential cards of same suit)
4 of a Kind	50		3, 3, 3, 3, X (X refers to any other card)
Full House	25		5, 5, 5, J, J (Three of a kind and a pair)
Flush	20		Q, 10, 6, 4, 3 of same suit (any 5 cards of the same suit)
Straight	15		6, 5, 4, 3, 2 of any suit. (5 sequential cards of any suit)
3 of a Kind	10		K, K, K, X, X (any three cards of the same rank)
Two Pair	5		A, A, 4, 4, X
One Pair	2		Q, Q, X, X, X

The scores from all 10 hands are added together to arrive at the final score.

Game Notes

Similar games include: Cribbage Square, Blackjack Square