Poker/Solitaire is a game for one that uses a full deck of playing cards, without the Joker, and a game board that you can make yourself.

Build Your Game Board

You can use a bit of felt, cardboard or brown paper to make your Poker/Solitaire game board that might look a bit like the drawing on the right.
You will need space for 5 normal playing cards across and five cards down plus a space below that for your deck of cards.
Lay out the 26 cards as in the drawing and carefully chalk around them.
Put the cards aside and carefully draw around the chalk outlines with a felt marker or some paint.
You can decorate the board if you wish and it will stay neat if you put it in Grandpa's serviette holder.

How to Play

Shuffle the deck of cards and place it on the single box at the bottom of the board, face down.
Take a card and place it in any one of the 25 spots on the board.
Continue until all spots are filled.
Once a card has been placed, it cannot be moved.
Each row across and each column down forms a poker hand.
When you have filled up the whole 25 spaces the game is over and it is time to check your score.
Your final score will be the sum of these 10 hands.
The scores for each hand are:

Royal Flush=100,Straight Flush=75, 4-Of-A-Kind=50,
Full House=25, Flush=20, Straight=15,
3-Of-A-Kind=10, Two Pair=5, Pair=2
(see below for the combinations)