Video Poker: The Survival Roguelite

Add new ways to score your hand and modify your deck to better fit these requirements.

How to Play

At the top of the screen is your current hand of eight cards. Click the Hold and Draw buttons to choose which cards you wish to keep. When you are ready click the Deal button to replace the selected cards.

From your hand various hands can be formed; the valid hand arrangements are shown at the left. Points are awarded for various combinations and types of cards present in your hand; these bonuses are shown at the right. The arrangement further multiplies the score from these points.

When you believe your hand is ready click the Take button to claim the highest scoring arrangement of your hand. When you have scored enough points (shown at the bottom) you will have a choice of new hand arrangements, bonuses, and can change out a selection of cards from your deck. You must select one hand arrangement or bonus, and one modification of your deck. If you already have three arrangements or six bonuses in play, the oldest will be replaced.

You have only a limited number of deals (shown on the Deal button) which are spent when you replace cards, or are dealt a new hand after scoring. Additional deals are granted when you level up.

You can view the cards currently in your deck at any time from the Deck tab at the right.

Definitions and Special Cases

A set consists of cards of the same value (the text that appears in the corner).

A run consists of cards in numeric order. The face cards: Jack, Queen, King, follow 10. The Ace card can either precede 2 or follow King (but not both in the same run).

A group can be either a set or run.

A disjoint group consists of cards where no two have the same value or are adjacent for the purposes of a run.

Dominos have two values but only one can be used within a meld. A set of 1|4 2|4 4|6 is valid with a four in common between each. A set of 1|4 1|5 4|5 is not valid as there is no common value between all three.