Power Poker

Poker squares for one player. Twenty-five cards are dealt one at a time from a shuffled deck. Lay each one on any empty place of a 5 x 5 grid; once laid, a card stays put. Every row and every column is a poker hand, scored the moment its fifth card goes down: royal flush 400, straight flush 300, four of a kind 160, straight 120, full house 100, three of a kind 60, flush 50, two pair 30, one pair 10. Aces are high, and also low in A-2-3-4-5. There are no diagonals. The ten hands make the game, and each row's and column's points stay beside it. The best score of the session is the high score.

Controls: Use either controller. The stick moves the frame over the grid, the left button lays the card, and the right button shows the point values.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, November 1985: original Commodore 64 program by Jud Bleser. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.