Summary: Place 25 cards sequentially in a 5-by-5 grid with an object to score the highest Poker combinations in each row and column.
Equipment:
a shuffled standard (French) 52-card deck
a pen and Poker Squares grid for each player
Rules: Each turn, a card is drawn from the deck and announced. Each player must then privately write the card rank and suit (e.g. “10C” for 10 of Clubs, “AH” for Ace of Hearts) in any empty cell of their 5-by-5 grid. Once written in the grid, cards may not be moved. After all players have written the card, the next turn begins. When player grids are full after 25 cards, grids are scored.
Scoring: The 5-card hand of each grid row and column is scored according to a point system.
Poker Squares Hand Scoring Systems
Poker Hand
American Points
English Points
Royal Flush
100
30
Straight Flush
75
30
Four of a Kind
50
16
Full House
25
10
Flush
20
5
Straight
15
12
Three of a Kind
10
6
Two Pair
5
2
One Pair
2
1
High Card
0
0
A player's total score is the sum of the hand scores for each of the 10 row and column hands.