Did you know there are hundreds, if not thousands of solitaire games? You may have heard of some of the more popular ones, such as Freecell, Klondike, Pyramid, or Spider Solitaire.
But there are LOTS of other solitaire games as well. One of my favourites is a little-known game called Cruel Solitaire.
The aim of cruel solitaire is to build 4 ascending suit sequences in the foundation zone.
The opening tableau is made up of 4 foundation stacks (Each containing an Ace), a talon, and 12 manoeuvre stacks, each containing 4 cards.
You can move cards in the foundation stack onto cards of the same suit, and one more in rank.
For example, you can move a 3 of Clubs onto a 4 of Clubs, or a Queen of Hearts onto a King of Hearts, and a 2 of Spades onto a 3 of Spades.
REDEALING IN CRUEL SOLITAIRE…
The talon in Cruel Solitaire is unlike the talon in other solitaire games. It doesn’t actually deal out any more cards.
Instead, it redeals the cards in the manoeuvre stacks, so that each stack has 4 cards. The order of the cards stays the same, starting at the leftmost stack, with the bottom cards on a stack going to the...