Solitaire

A quick guide to play solitaire

Solitaire is a really simple yet amusing card game anyone can learn after a couple of games.

To get you started, you might first want to become familiar with the card suits and values. There are a total of 4 suits: Clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts. Their names are easy to remember and necessary to recall during a game of solitaire. As for the suits, each of them have 13 cards that are ranked from ace to king. Now, it may cross your mind “why is it an ace instead of a number?. Well, I can’t give you an answer to that because neither do I have an idea where it was established that the card number one, eleven, twelve and thirteen must be an ace, jack, queen, and king respectively.

Either way the order of the cards will start at one and end at thirteen. Once you have the order memorized, it’s time to look at the rules of solitaire and the conditions to win.

The cards are dealt in an odd fashion. To describe it as simply as possible, think of it as a stair that has seven steps, and each step gets higher by one card than the previous one until the last row contains exactly seven cards, the second-last six cards, the third-last five cards and so on. In fact, all the cards are placed in a column manner and every card, except for the bottom most card of a column, is faced down.

With that explained, the deck sits in the left top of the board. You can draw three cards from the deck at a time, but only the uppermost card can be played on one of the bottom columns in the game. 

Last but not least, there are four empty spaces in the right top of the board. These spaces are special since cards have to be arranged in a specific order to be placed there. To win the game you must arrange the cards from one suit ranked ace to king in one of those four empty spaces, which happen to match up the number of suits a standard set of cards has.

So to achieve this goal is just as easy as to put a card on another card, though there are some rules to it: You can’t stack if the two cards share the same color, you can’t stack if the card doesn’t follow a descending order such as “4,3,2”, and kings can occupy empty columns. You can also choose a card below other cards and stack that card along those other cards on a card if it follows the first two rules.

I’d like to thank this channel and this helpful tutorial for teaching some of the basics in programming games as this was my first project.

I followed the tutorial to the very end and fixed some errors I noticed while also playing the game.

The link for their channel is this: https://www.youtube.com/@megalomatt 

 The first video of the tutorial is this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cmb181-quI