Royal Flush (game) Royal Flush (game) Royal Flush is a solitaire card game which is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. The game is so called because the aim of the game is to end up with a royal flush of any suit. However, the game is so much mechanical in nature that there is currently no electronic or computer implementation. Its rules are so far included in printed matter such as "The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games" by Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith and "100 Best Solitaire Games" by Sloane Lee and Gabriel Packard. First, the deck is
Draw poker pot with less than three of a kind. In the event no one makes the winning requirement, the pot is moved on to the next hand. The strongest possible hand in this game is five aces which is achieved if the player obtains the four aces plus the joker (joker counts as an ace if there's neither a straight nor a flush to complete). This can result in some enormous pots, and is where the term 'Jackpot' comes from. The game is named after the city of Gardena, California, where this game was especially popular from the 1930s to 1970s