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18+For entertainment onlyNo real money playNo prizes of monetary valueNo in-app purchases

Arcadekite
2,500 lift

Kite D · Cards: draw · 310 m

Tailhold

Five-card draw against a fixed table. You are dealt five cards, you hold the ones you like and draw once for the rest. A pair of jacks or better is the smallest hand that brings lift back, and an exact counter will ring the best hold if you ask.

  • Kind: Cards, five-card draw
  • Swing: Steady, rare peaks
  • Decisions: Hold and draw

Played for lift only · lift has no cash value · adults 18+ · for entertainment only

Cover art for Tailhold: five long ribbon tails in pink, saffron, lime, teal and violet streaming from a black and gold kite
Tailhold · Cards: draw

Pick a stake, then launch. Lift has no cash value.

The kites are paused on this device.

Field notes, your flight log and Safe Landing stay open.

Your lift

2,500lift · no cash value

Stake

This session

Set check-ins and a round cap at Safe Landing.

How Tailhold flies

  1. Pick a stake and press Deal five cards. The cards come from a full 52-card pack, shuffled for every round.
  2. Tap any cards to hold them and tap again to let them go. Show the best hold counts every possible draw for all 32 ways to hold and rings the best one.
  3. Press Draw. Every card you did not hold is replaced from the same pack, once.
  4. The final hand is paid by the table below. A pair of jacks, queens, kings or aces is the smallest hand that brings lift back.
  5. Aces count high or low in a straight (A-2-3-4-5 and 10-J-Q-K-A), but a straight never wraps round.

What comes back

Final hand, as a multiple of the stake
HandBack
Royal flush800×
Straight flush50×
Four of a kind25×
Full house8×
Flush5×
Straight4×
Three of a kind3×
Two pair2×
Jacks or better1×

A royal flush is rare: with the best holds it comes up roughly once in 40,000 hands.

Good to know

The best hold is counted, not guessed: every possible draw for every way to hold. Playing it gives the most back over many hands, though any single draw can still miss.

Lift is a play unit with no cash value. It cannot be bought, swapped or turned into anything. If the lift runs low, Relaunch tops it up to 2,500 for free, with no wait. Results here say nothing about how you would do at real-money gambling, and they are not a reason to try it.

Want a break? The Pause key in the header closes the six kites on this device for as long as you choose. Safe Landing has check-ins, a round cap and calm mode.

The other kites on the line