Sudoker
Poker meets Sudoku: rearrange 25 cards so every row and column makes a strong hand.
Every day: A Daily Challenge deal of 25 cards in a five by five grid, rearranged to make the best poker hands across rows and columns. New puzzle: Midnight in your time zone.
Sudoker is a short browser puzzle that mixes poker and Sudoku. You get 25 playing cards laid out in a five by five grid and rearrange them so the five rows and five columns make the best poker hands you can. The Daily Challenge gives a fixed deal for the day, and any run can be shared with a seed link.
About Sudoker
Sudoker, made by adakite7, describes itself as a bite-sized puzzle for quick breaks, inspired by poker and Sudoku. The board is a five by five grid of playing cards. Every row is a five-card poker hand, and so is every column, so each card counts in two hands at once. You drag cards around the grid to improve those ten hands.
Each hand is scored from its rank and its cards. Hands from High Card to Royal Flush carry a multiplier from 1 to 10, and each card from 2 to Ace is worth 2 to 14 points. The game's FAQ gives examples: a pair of jacks scores (2 x 100) + (11 + 11) = 222, three fives score (4 x 100) + (5 + 5 + 5) = 415, and four twos score 808. The score panel shows your total against the best score possible for that deal, as a percentage, and counts how many of each hand you have made. You can end the run, restart it, reveal a solution or share your result.
The Daily Challenge is a deal fixed by the date: the game builds its seed from midnight on your device, so the deal changes at local midnight. The home page shows Daily Challenge, Continue Daily Challenge or Daily Challenge Results depending on how far you got. New Run deals a fresh grid at any time. Each run has a seed number, and the seed URL lets someone else play exactly the same grid, which is how you challenge a friend or compare strategies.
How to play Sudoker
- Open the Daily Challenge to get today's 25 cards in a five by five grid.
- Drag cards to swap their places; each row and each column is scored as a five-card poker hand.
- Watch the hand names and points beside each row and below each column as you move cards.
- Push your total toward the best possible score shown as a percentage, then end the run and share it.
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Tips
- The game's own tip: get flushes across the rows first, then fine-tune the columns.
- A card counts in one row and one column, so look for cards that help both hands.
- Higher hands matter more than high cards: the multiplier is worth 100 points per step, a card at most 14.
Questions
Is there a daily puzzle?
Yes. The Daily Challenge is a deal built from the date, and it changes at midnight on your device.
How is a hand scored?
Hand multiplier (1 for High Card up to 10 for Royal Flush) times 100, plus the card values from 2 to 14.
What is the seed number?
Each run has a seed that fixes the starting grid. Sharing the seed URL lets someone else play the same grid.
Is it free?
Yes, it is free in the browser and on itch.io.
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