How to Play

You have 11 turns to play a Royal Flush (A-K-Q-J-T of same suit) and escape. The starting Anchor acts as a wild. Each turn: pick 4 cards from your Grip, score the 5-card hand (Anchor + 4), draw new cards to refill your Grip, then choose a new Anchor from the 4 you played. Only the first Anchor is wild — subsequent anchors are the card they represent.

Jokers act as the best possible card for your hand.

Difficulty

Difficulty controls the size of your Grip. Cannot be changed mid-game.

🟢 Easy — 9-card Grip. Grip refills to 9 each turn.

🟡 Normal — 8-card Grip. Grip refills to 8 each turn. (Default)

🔴 Hard — 7-card Grip. Grip refills to 7 each turn.

Tools

Three one-use tools are available during the card selection phase. Only one tool may be used per turn, and each tool can only be used once per game.

💣 Explosives — Select a card from your Grip to become the new Anchor immediately. The old Anchor is discarded. You then select 4 cards to play from your remaining Grip.

🔦 Flare — Swap one card from your Grip with any card in your Discard pile. Requires at least one card in the Discard.

📡 Radio — Return any number of Grip cards to the deck. The deck reshuffles and your Grip refills to full size.

Paytable

Natural Royal Flush	1,000
Five of a Kind (Quints)	150
Wild Royal Flush	100
Straight Flush	40
Four of a Kind (Quads)	25
Full House	8
Flush	7
Straight	6
Three of a Kind (Trips)	3
Two Pair	2
One Pair	1
Nothing	0

Game Modes

🃏 Standard — The primary goal is to play any Royal Flush (Wild or Natural) at least once across your 11 turns.

💀 Hardcore — Only a Natural Royal Flush satisfies the primary goal. Wild cards cannot contribute to it.

🏆 Pure Score — There is no escape condition. The primary goal is to accumulate as many points as possible across 11 turns. Performance is graded on a tier scale: D, C, B, A, and S.

🎲 High Variance — A random goal is assigned at the start of each game. Goals require specific hands to be played an exact number of times — "or better" does not count. The seven possible goals are:

Quad Trips	4× Three of a Kind
Straights & Trips	2× Straight + 1× Three of a Kind
Flushes & Trips	2× Flush + 1× Three of a Kind
Double Down	2× Full House
The Iron Fist	1× Four of a Kind + 1× Three of a Kind + 1× One Pair
Two Birds with One Stone	1× Straight Flush + 2× One Pair
Quints	1× Five of a Kind