About Wildcard Draw
Wildcard Draw is five-card draw poker for one player, dealt from a 52-card deck plus one wild card. Keep any of the five, swap the others a single time. The wild card stands in for whatever card makes your hand best, so it can turn a pair into three of a kind, finish a straight or even make five of a kind.
The final hand is scored against a fixed table. A pair of kings or aces returns your stake, two pair returns it too, and stronger hands return more, up to 800 times the stake for a natural royal flush made without the wild card.
How to play
- Choose a stake and press Deal.
- Tap or click the cards you want to keep. Held cards rise and can be released with another tap.
- Press Draw. Every card you did not hold is replaced from the same deck.
- If you hold the wild card it becomes the best possible card for your hand.
- The final hand is matched against the table on the cabinet and the score is added to your total.
Score table
| Natural royal flush | × 800 |
|---|---|
| Five of a kind | × 200 |
| Wild royal flush | × 100 |
| Straight flush | × 50 |
| Four of a kind | × 18 |
| Full house | × 7 |
| Flush | × 5 |
| Straight | × 3 |
| Three of a kind | × 2 |
| Two pair | × 1 |
| Kings or better | × 1 |
Design notes
Always hold the wild card: it is worth more than any single natural card. A pair lower than kings scores nothing on its own, so with one low pair and the wild card you already hold three of a kind.
The hand list on the cabinet lights up the moment you are dealt something that already scores, so you never discard a made hand by accident.
