CHOWAHA

Overview

Chowaha is a community card game where each player receives 2 private cards and must use both. The community board has 12 cards: a 3×3 grid of 9 cards (the flop), two cards stacked vertically beside it (the turn), and one final card to the right (the river). To make your hand you must follow a connected path through the board — pick one card from any flop row, add the turn card that row connects to, and always include the river card.

Key Rules

The Deal

• Blinds: Posted before the deal
• Pre-Flop: 2 individual face-down cards each → Small Bet
• Flop: All 9 grid cards revealed simultaneously → Small Bet
• Turn: Both turn cards revealed (top and bottom) → Big Bet
• River: 1 final card revealed (required by all hands) → Big Bet → Showdown

Connected Paths

The board has implied paths where the flop rows connect to a turn card which connects to the final river card:

• Row 1 (flop positions 1-2-3) → top turn card → river
• Row 2 (flop positions 4-5-6) → top turn or bottom turn (player's choice) → river
• Row 3 (flop positions 7-8-9) → bottom turn card → river

Pick exactly 1 card from your chosen row + the connected turn card + the river card = 3 community cards total.