Free Chinese Poker and Poker Puzzles – 7 Games

• You build three poker hands face up: 3 cards on top, 5 in the middle and 5 on the bottom. You get 5 cards first and place them one by one, then eight more cards one at a time, placing each as you get it.
• The rows must be in order: the bottom hand has to beat the middle, and the middle has to beat the top. If they are not, your hand is fouled and you lose all three rows plus 6 points and the opponent's bonus points.
• Each row you win scores 1 point, winning all three scores 3 more (a scoop), and bonus points (royalties) from the table are added for strong hands, with the difference between the two players counted.
• Both boards are open, so you can see the bot's rows and the cards it has used. This free version has no Fantasyland, and the button alternates between you and the bot, with the player on the button placing last.

Play Open Face Chinese Poker Full rules

• Pineapple OFC plays like Open Face Chinese Poker, but after the first five cards you are dealt three cards on each street. You place two of them in your rows and discard the third, face down.
• The extra choice makes it easier to build strong rows and also easier to be greedy, so fouls are the main danger. Bonus points are the same as in standard OFC.
• Tap a card, then tap a row to place it, or press Discard. After you have placed two cards, the last card is discarded for you. Undo works until you press Lock In.
• The bot sees your open rows but not your discards, so it cannot know which cards you threw away.

Play Pineapple OFC Full rules

• Each of the four players gets 13 cards at once. You arrange yours into a bottom hand of 5, a middle hand of 5 and a top hand of 3, then everyone shows their rows together.
• The bottom hand has to beat the middle and the middle has to beat the top, or your hand fouls. Your hand is compared with each bot, row by row, and the points are added up.
• Use Auto-Arrange to see a good setup, then move cards to try your own ideas. Tap a card, then a row. Tap a placed card to take it back.
• Rules and bonus points differ a lot between groups of players. This free version uses the row, scoop and bonus table shown above, and the bots arrange their cards with a solver set to the difficulty you choose.

Play Chinese Poker (13 cards) Full rules

• Cards come one at a time from a shuffled deck. Place each one in any empty square of a 5 by 5 grid. When the grid is full, the 5 rows and 5 columns each score as a five-card poker hand.
• You cannot move a card once it is placed, so the game is about planning. Cards that fit two lines at once are the most valuable, and you often have to give up a row to save a column.
• Pairs and trips are easy to make, while flushes and straights score more but need a lot of luck. Use the hint to see how a simulation would place the card.
• Your score is the total of the ten hands, using the American table above. Try to beat your best score.

Play Poker Solitaire (5×5) Full rules

• A quick way to train your hand reading. You are shown the cards, you pick the five you think make the best hand, and the game checks your answer against every possible hand.
• Choose a mode: the highest hand, the two kinds of lowball hand, or Omaha, where you must use exactly two of your four hole cards and three of the five board cards.
• Each correct answer scores 10 points, and a streak adds a few more. Wrong answers show the best hand with gold cards, so you can see what you missed.
• Straights, flushes and the second-best pair are the easiest hands to overlook. If two different hands are equally good, either one counts as correct.

Play Best Hand Builder Full rules

• Poker Squares is the same game as Poker Solitaire, played on the same 5 by 5 grid, but with a scoring table that rewards straights more and flushes less, which changes the best strategy.
• In this table a straight is worth more than a full house, a flush is worth only 5, and a pair is worth 1. A grid of pairs and trips scores much better than in the American table, while flushes are worth chasing less.
• Place a card, watch the row and column scores fill in, and keep an eye on columns that can still become a straight. The hint plays out many simulated finishes.
• Your best total for this table is saved on your device, separately from Poker Solitaire.

Play Poker Squares Full rules

• Each day has one shuffled deck, the same for every player on the same UTC date. Place the 13 cards as in Open Face Chinese Poker, with no opponent, and aim for as many bonus points as possible.
• A hand that fouls scores 0, so a careful setup often beats a greedy one. The bonus points are the same table used in Open Face Chinese Poker.
• When you finish, the practice bot's rows for the same cards are shown with its bonus points, so you can compare your plan with a simulation-based one.
• You can replay the same puzzle as many times as you like for practice, and your best score for the day is saved on your device.

Play OFC Puzzle of the Day Full rules