Poker Square

Poker Square is played with a deck of 52 standard playing cards. 25 spaces aligned in a 5 by 5 grid are used for this game. At the start of the game, all spaces are empty and the player takes one card at a time from the stock and place it onto the grid. The goal of the game is to form the best possible poker hands both horizontally and vertically. Once all 25 spaces are filled, player is given a score based on these 10 poker hands. Different hands of poker are worth differently as follows: Royal Flush 100 points, Straight Flush 75 points, 4 Of A Kind 50 points, Full House 25 points, Flush 20 points, Straight 15 points, 3 of A Kind 10 points, Two Pair 5 points, and One Pair 2 points.