solitaire
calculation
I made a version of Calculation solitaire that you can play in your browser here!
https://semicolon.com/Solitaire/Rules/Calculation.html
Remove an ace, 2, 3, and 4 from a standard deck and re-shuffle. Suits and colors do not matter in this game, so choose any.
Place the ace, 2, 3, and 4 in a row in ascending order. These are the bases of the 4 foundations.
The remaining cards make up the stock. Only the topmost card of the stock may be played.
The goal is to build the 4 foundations following these sequences:
A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K (by 1s)
2 4 6 8 10 Q A 3 5 7 9 J K (by 2s)
3 6 9 Q 2 5 8 J A 4 7 10 K (by 3s)
4 8 Q 3 7 J 2 6 10 A 5 9 K (by 4s)
If the topmost card of the stock cannot be added to any of the foundations, it must be added to one of the four wastepiles.
Cards cannot be moved between wastepiles. Only the bottommost card of a wastepile can be played, and the only valid move is to move it to a foundation.
There are no rules dictating how wastepiles are built: in fact, how you build the wastepiles is key to winning the game.
strategy
- If you have a card that can be added to a foundation, do it. There's no reason to hold on to a card if it can be moved to the foundation.
- Keep kings in their own wastepile. Since they are the final cards in all sequences, they can block all cards below them in the wastepile for a while.
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