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Summit Solitaire

About Summit Solitaire

Summit Solitaire is a quick card game for one. Seven columns of face-up cards sit above a single open card, and you clear them by playing cards one rank higher or lower. Long unbroken runs are worth far more than single cards, so the game is about planning a chain, not just finding a move.

How to play

  1. Tap a column to move its bottom card onto the open card, if it is one rank higher or lower.
  2. Suits do not matter, and a king and an ace count as neighbours.
  3. Tap the stock to turn over a new open card when you are stuck. This ends your current run.
  4. The deal ends when every column is clear, or when the stock is empty and no card can be played.

How the deal is laid out

Every deal uses a standard 52-card deck. Thirty-five cards go into seven columns of five, all face up, so you can see every card from the start. One card becomes the open card, and the other 16 wait face down in the stock. Only the bottom card of each column can be played, and a gold outline marks any that fit the open card right now.

Scoring runs

The first card you play after a draw is worth 10 points, the second 20, the third 30 and so on. A run of eight cards earns 360 points, while the same eight cards played in four separate runs of two earn only 120. Drawing from the stock resets the run to zero, so it pays to play every card you can before you draw. The Run counter in the top bar shows how long your current chain is.

The clearing bonus

If you clear all seven columns, every card still left in the stock is worth 25 points. Clearing the board with 6 cards to spare adds 150 points on top of your runs. Not every deal can be cleared, so a high score can also come from a deal you do not finish.

Choose between two moves

Often two columns both fit the open card. Before you pick one, look at the card each choice would leave behind. If one path lets you keep going for three more cards and the other ends after one, take the longer path. Because the ranks wrap around, a king can follow an ace and a two can follow an ace too, which gives you more ways to extend a run than it first seems.

Free deep cards first

Columns hold five cards each, and the cards at the top are the hardest to reach. When moves are otherwise equal, play from the tallest column. A column that is left with one or two cards late in the deal is the one most likely to stop you clearing the board.

Controls and best score

You can tap or click a column, or press the keys 1 to 7 to play from the matching column. Tap the stock or press Space to draw. New deal shuffles a fresh layout at any time. Your best score is saved in this browser, so you can come back and try to beat it.

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