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- BOX POKER INSTRUCTIONS
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- Finding the optimum placement for good cards and bad is the basic strategy
- of BOX POKER, an adaptation of an old poker solitaire game.
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- The computer is the dealer - it shuffles the cards and turns up the first 25
- cards, one at a time. You then drop the cards on a 5x5 grid by pressing one
- of the letters A to Y corresponding to the boxes that make up the grid. As the
- exposed top card, on the CARD DECK, is played onto the grid, the next card is
- turned up. After all 25 cards are on the grid, the computer will add up and
- display the scores accumulated.
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- The object of the game is to create ten poker hands, five across and five
- vertically, of five cards each. Diagonals do not count. Hands earn a score
- from zero (0) to 30, depending on the relative difficulty of achieving that
- particular hand. (See the end of these instructions for scoring chart.)
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- Strategy is very important in this game. For example, you'll learn to go for
- flushes in one direction and straights, full houses, and so on, in the other.
- You will develop your own particular strategies and should become more
- proficient each time you play the game.
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- SCORING CHART
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- Straight Flush.........30
- Four of a Kind.........16
- Straight...............12
- Full House.............10
- Three of a Kind.........6
- Flush...................5
- Two Pair................3
- One Pair................1
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- The following hands are listed in ascending order. Any hand listed will beat
- all hands listed above it. Note that the odds are different in real poker from
- what they are in BOX POKER, so the ranking below is somewhat different than in
- the scoring chart above.
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- NOTHING : No cards matching in any way for any score.
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- ONE PAIR : Consists of any 2 cards of the same rank, such as 2 fives.
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- TWO PAIR : Consists of any 2 cards of the same rank, 2 cards of any
- other rank, and the 5th card unmarched.
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- 3 of a KIND : Composed of any 3 cards of the same rank, with the other 2
- cards in the hand unmatched.
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- STRAIGHT : Consists of any 5 cards of 2 or more different suits, in
- sequence of rank. An ace may be used as part of a sequence
- either on the high or low end, such as in A-K-Q-J-T or the
- A-2-3-4-5. The cards may appear in any order on the grid.
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- FLUSH : Consists of any five cards of the same suit.
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- FULL HOUSE : Composed of 3 of a KIND along with a PAIR of another kind.
- Examples are as follows: 6-6-6-K-K and A-A-A-2-2.
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- 4 of a KIND : Consists of four cards of any one rank with the fifth card
- unmatched. Examples are: K-K-3-K-K and 3-3-3-3-10.
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- STRAIGHT FLUSH : The highest ranking hand and consists of 5 cards in sequence
- in the same suit. It is exactly as its name suggests both
- straight and flush at the same time.
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