The object of this solitaire game is to build a complete face-card
gallery of Jacks, Queens, and Kings.
You build sequences of cards on the
Foundation rows by suit (building rules: top row 2-5-8-Jack;
middle 3-6-9-Queen; bottom 4-7-10-King) using the cards of the
Tableau and the still incorrect cards of the Foundation. Deal cards from the Stock to the
Tableau as needed. At the end of the game, let the computer play out the same starting situation
a few times.
24 piles: 3 rows with 8 columns.
Empty spots can be filled with the base cards "2", "3", and "4", as above. Building rule: Add cards by suit, in increasing rank, by a difference of 3.
Cards at their correct position have an altered appearance (no number, plus a narrow frame).
8 piles are fed by the cards played from the Stock. Only completely visible cards are available for play.
The Stock initially consists of two decks (104 cards). As the game begins, the first 24 cards are played to the Foundation. Each time you click Stock, 8 cards move into play, one to each of the Tableau piles.
Ace Pile: Aces are automatically removed to the Aces pile and are not a part of play.
The game begins by dealing 24 cards, face up, to the Foundation and 8 cards to the Tableau. Some of the cards on the Foundation may now already be at their final position ("2", "3", "4"), and aces go directly to the ace pile. Just tap on a card to play it (it finds its correct position automatically).
You build a complete gallery of all face cards, removing all cards from the Tableau (score: 0)
The appearing photos are all from Blenio
Valley, Ticino, Switzerland
Or, you make a better score than the computer (see the "Statistics" tab). For your personal evaluation use whatever measure you like (better than the minimum or better than the median or the mean).
After the evaluation you start a New game or you Redo the same starting game.
During the evaluation process (simulation of 1'000 games) each individual result of the random process is given a small square. It's color depends on the result: blue: your result is better - white: drawn - red: computer is better - dark red: solved game (result 0); if your result was also 0: light gray.
(in the lower right corner of the statistics graph). The small graph shows the same thing (at least the colors) as the summary table in the Statistics tab: the comparison indicators of the last games.
Version 3.0, © 2023, Adrian Herzog
https://gallery.mapresso.com
Include your game results in an email
(in CSV format) for further analysis.
Include your game results in an email
(in CSV format) for further analysis.
Thanks to Karen Morris for editing the texts, and to Marc Brühlmann for some of the photos.
Vectorized Playing Cards 1.3, Copyright 2011, 2021 - Chris Aguilar - conjurenation at gmail dot com Licensed under: LGPL 3.0 - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html
Aerial photograph from 1923: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv/Stiftung Luftbild Schweiz / Photographer: Mittelholzer, Walter / LBS_MH01-003541