The best hand wins!!!
Congrats to Lovin Life with her Royal Flush in Spades!
This is a Poker Cache Challenge. It is Five Card Draw, five cards to make a hand, Opening hands must be Jacks or Better. Lets play cards kids, good luck.
Rules to Log:
- You must create a 5 card poker hand utilizing the name of five previously found caches.
- Your hand must match or beat a pair of Jacks to qualify.
- You must list five, and only five cache finds, even if only making a pair.
- Post your five caches by GC code and Cache Name in the log when you log it online.
Cards:
Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 must all be present in the Cache Name. Numbers starting with zero (0) do count, so 02 counts as a two, 05 a five, etc.. Numbers can be numeric or spelled out (3, three, 4, four, etc.). Numers do not have to start the cache name, but they must be a number, example: One, two, 3, 4, etc. They cannot be at sequential, first, second, third, etc.
Royals Jack, Queen, King, Ace – these words must be present in the Cache Name but do not have to begin the name. These can be part of another word as well, Jackson = Jack, Kingston = King and so on.
Suits Spade, Heart, Diamond, Club can be used to create flushes and flushed straits, the suit word must be present in the cache name. To create a flush simply having five caches with the word heart in the name would count as a flush hand. To created a flushed straight, both the suit and the strait cards must be in the name. Suits words can be part of other words, like: Heartache = heart, etc.
Joker a cache with Joker in the name may be used to as a filler card to complete a five card hand, but does not count as a wild card. Joker is just a filler.
Creating a Hand:
- Select five caches starting with numbers, or containing Royals, Joker or Suit words in them.
- Write the GC Code and the Cache Name in the log.
- Your hand must match or beat the opening hand of a Pair of Jacks
Example Hand 1: GCXXXXX – King’s Corner, GCXXXX – Attempting King’s Crossing, GCXXXX – 3 Times a Charm, GCXXXX – Three’s Company, GCXXXX – 9-9-9 Puzzle Cache. (This hand contains five caches, creating a hand of KK339 which is a pair of Kings and a pair of threes, making two pair).
Example Hand 2: GCXXXXX – 4 Corners, GCXXXXX – 4 Day Out, GCXXXXX – Four Directions, GCXXXXX – Heart of a Queen, GCXXXXX – Joker’s Wild (This hand would be a three of a kind, 4s).
Example Hand 3 (Flush): GCXXXXX – Heart’s of Gold, GCXXXXX – A Heart of Stone, GCXXXXX – Shot through the Heart, GCXXXXX – Queen of Hearts, GCXXXXX – Hearts on Fire (All five caches contain the suit word, this hand is a flush of hearts).
Example Hand 4 (Flushed Straight): GCXXXXX – Ace of Diamonds, GCXXXXX – 2 Diamond Gems, GCXXXXX – 3 Diamonds, GCXXXXX – 4K Diamond Ring, GCXXXXX – 5 Chests of Diamonds and Rubies (This hand creates an Ace-5 strait flush of diamonds because all cards form the strait hand and all cards have the suit word).
Is it clear as mud yet? Think you got a handle on the game? I hope so because the cards are dealt and we are ready to play. But what is poker without a prize? The contest is over, Lovin Life wins it at the tables. I have readjusted the difficulty, make any hand that beats a pair of Jacks to log this cache, but for fun, if you can try beating the cacher who posted prior to you. Have fun all and cache on.
One Last Note – Possible Poker hands from highest to lowest:
Royal Flush - A straight from a ten to an ace with all five cards of the same suit. In poker all suits are ranked equally.
Straight Flush - Any straight with all five cards of the same suit.
Four of a Kind - Any four cards of the same rank. If two players share the same Four of a Kind (on the board), the bigger fifth card (the "kicker") decides who wins the pot.
Full House - Any three cards of the same rank together with any two cards of the same rank.
Flush - Any five cards of the same suit (not consecutive). The highest card of the five determines the rank of the flush.
Straight - Any five consecutive cards of different suits. Aces can count as either a high or a low card.
Three of a Kind - Any three cards of the same rank.
Two Pair - Any two cards of the same rank together with another two cards of the same rank.
One Pair – Jacks or Better - Any two cards of the same rank. The pair in this case must be of Jacks or higher in order to qualify.
