Poker Squares

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.