How to play
In Deuces Wild every 2 is a wild card. The game treats each deuce as whatever card gives you the best hand, so a 2 can complete a straight, fill a flush or turn three Queens into four. The deck is an ordinary 52 cards, freshly shuffled for each hand.
Choose a bet of 1 to 5 credits with Bet one and press Deal, or press Bet max to bet 5 and deal at once. You’ll see five cards. Tap the ones you’re keeping (they show Held) and press Draw; the others are replaced from the same deck. Your final hand is paid from the table on screen.
Hint is there for tricky hands: watch an optional short ad and it highlights the hold with the highest expected value, calculated over every possible draw. Credits are virtual. You start with 1,000 and can claim 1,000 more whenever you hit zero.
Pay table
This is the version known as “full pay” Deuces Wild:
| Hand | Pays per credit |
|---|---|
| Natural Royal Flush | 250 (4,000 at 5 credits) |
| Four Deuces | 200 |
| Wild Royal Flush | 25 |
| Five of a Kind | 15 |
| Straight Flush | 9 |
| Four of a Kind | 5 |
| Full House | 3 |
| Flush | 2 |
| Straight | 2 |
| Three of a Kind | 1 |
There’s no pay for a pair or two pair: with four wild cards around, those are too common. The lowest win is three of a kind, which hands back your stake.
The numbers
Played perfectly at 5 credits, this table returns 100.76%, calculated exactly over every deal and hold. That’s a small player edge in theory; in practice it needs near-flawless decisions and a very long run, and here it only moves virtual credits.
Under best play you’ll hit four deuces roughly once every 4,900 hands and a natural royal about once every 45,000. Around 45% of hands pay something, though plenty of those are three of a kind that only returns the bet.
The family has several cousins that move these numbers around. Loose Deuces pays 500 for four deuces and trims the middle; Bonus Deuces adds an Ace kicker and pays five Aces 80.
Strategy
The number of deuces in your hand decides almost everything, so sort hands by that first.
Four deuces. You’ve got 200 per credit. The fifth card doesn’t matter on this table.
Three deuces. Keep a wild royal or five of a kind if you’ve been dealt one. Otherwise hold only the three deuces and draw two. With 2-2-2 plus an off-suit K and Q, the bare deuces are worth about 15 per credit, much more than any four-card hold.
Two deuces. Keep made four of a kind or better. Otherwise hold the deuces, plus suited cards that make four to a royal. Most of the time, just the two deuces.
One deuce. Hold four to a royal (2 with 10-J-Q of one suit) even if it breaks a straight you already have; that draw is worth nearly 3.9 against 2 for the straight. Without a royal draw, a lone deuce usually beats a deuce with two small suited cards, but only just.
No deuces. Hold a pair, and with two pair keep only one of them: two pair pays nothing here, and one pair keeps more chances at trips and quads (about 0.56 against 0.51 per credit). Four to a royal still beats a made flush or straight.
Never discard a deuce. It sounds obvious, but it’s the most common slip when someone is used to Jacks or Better.
If you enjoy Deuces Wild, try Diamond Line or Dice 100 next.
