Poker Puzzle (YourLifeChoices)

Poker Puzzle is one of the games on YourLifeChoices, the Australian site for older readers, and runs on its own page as well as in a frame on the site's games section. Each day brings a new 5x5 grid of cards, which includes a joker. Every row, every column and the two diagonals is scored as a poker hand, from a pair worth 50 points up to a royal flush worth 5,000, and small markers around the edge show which lines hold a pair or two pair right now.

You have 15 swaps. Each swap exchanges two cards, and the Hands Formed panel lists every hand you have made and what it scores. Unused swaps are worth 100 points each, so the game is a balance between chasing a straight or a flush and keeping swaps in hand. Each day also has a bonus rule, picked by the day of the month from eleven kinds: Ace Up Your Sleeve raises the value of every hand holding an ace by half, Four of a Kind Fever triples four of a kind, and Swap Savvy makes each unused swap worth 200. When you are done you submit your score, which is ranked from Beginner upward, and a stats page keeps your history on your device.

The deal is worked out from the date, so everyone playing that day sees the same cards, and you get one scored play a day. An interactive tutorial walks new players through the rules, and there is a full-screen view. The game is free and needs no account; ad slots sit above the board.