Poker Drop Overview

Poker Drop is a new form of Solitaire that combines the action of Tetris with the logic of a card game. 

How To Play
Additional Features
System Requirements
File List

How to Play

When the game begins, all seven stacks are empty, and your first card appears far above them.  Then it starts to fall.  Using the arrow keys, you move your card so that it's over the stack of your choice, and once you're ready, you drop it onto the stack.  

If you're able to stack 5 cards that form a winning poker hand, those 5 cards will collapse and shorten the stack.  As in many video poker games, the "winning" hands in Poker Drop are: straight, flush, full house, 4 of a kind, straight flush, and royal flush. 

As soon as you drop your card (and after the stack collapses), another card appears at the top of the screen and the process starts all over again.  The game ends when there's no room for your next card to appear, and your final score is then based on the value of the poker hands that you have built.

One last thing: in addition to maneuvering your card with the arrow keys, you can also use the space bar to swap your card for another one from the deck.  You can do this as often as you like, and it's often to your strategic advantage, but it costs you a couple bucks each time!

Start of Game

Middle of Game

End of Game

Additional Features

Poker Drop version 2.4 also has the following features:

• High Score Table - keeps track of the top ten high scores and lets you enter a comment for each.
• Sound Support - sound effects whenever you collapse a stack, plus background music; you can turn them on or off.
• Custom Colors - choose your own foreground and background colors at any time
• Many Games In One - there are three different modes of play (Stud, Draw, and 7-Card), plus you can customize your own configuration.
• Fast Download - unlike other shareware card games (which are often a megabyte or more) this one is just over 180 kilobytes.  That's smaller than many web pages, and takes just a couple minutes to download on a 56.6k modem.
• Cheap - it only costs $7 to register.  Come on, that's less than the price of a pizza!

And best of all, Poker Drop is a shareware game, so you can try it for free before you buy it!

System Requirements

Poker Drop has very modest system requirements:

• Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT4
• Approximately 500 KB of available disk space (it fits on a floppy disk)

Note that Poker Drop does NOT work on Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, or any non-PC platform.

File List

A complete installation of Poker Drop includes the following files:

• POKEDROP.EXE
• CARDS32.DLL
• ORDER.TXT
• LICENSE.DOC
• VENDOR.DOC
• FILE_ID.DIZ
• README.TXT
• POKEHELP.HTM
• POKEOPTS.GIF
• 107968.GIF
• 678910.GIF
• 871069.GIF
• SONG1.MID
• SONG2.MID
• SONG3.MID
• SONG4.MID
• SONG5.MID

Poker Drop is distributed as a ZIP file, the worldwide standard for file compression and packaging.  See the WinZip home page to obtain your copy of the WinZip compression software today.