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Shamrocks
Instructions
Overview
At first glance,
victory in Shamrocks solitaire appears easy to attain. The layout contains
18 building stacks, which accept cards in both ascending and descending
rank regardless of suit. However, a stack can accept no more than 3 cards
and removing all cards from a stack takes it out of play, which makes the
game considerably more challenging.
Layout
There are two
types of stacks on the screen
- Building
Stacks All stacks in the layout except for those in the leftmost
column are building stacks. A building stack accepts cards in both ascending
and descending rank. No cards can be added to a building stack if the
stack contains 3 or 0 cards. The stacks are arranged so that a king
will be below all cards with the same suit as the king.
- Suit
Stacks The suit stacks are located in the left column of the layout
and are initially empty. They accept cards of the same suit in ascending
order.
Moving
Cards
To move a card,
click on the card (which will highlight it) and then click on the destination.
Only cards at the top of a building stack can be moved. The following are
valid moves:
- An ace
can be moved to its suit stack. (This will usually be done automatically.)
- A card
can be moved to its corresponding suit stack if the rank of the card
at the top of that stack is one less than the card's rank (Kings have
a rank of 13, queens 12, jacks 11 and an ace has a rank of 1).
- A card
can be moved to an occupied building stack if the stack contains less
than three cards and the rank of the card is one more or one less than
the card currently at the top of the stack. The suit of the card is
irrelevant. No cards can be added to an empty stack.
A card will
be automatically moved to the suit stacks from the the building stacks
if the cards which might be placed on top of it are already in the suit
stacks. Cards at the bottom of a stack will not be moved automatically
to prevent the undesired removal of the stack. Clicking undo will retract
an automatic move.
Tips
- Do not
remove the final card from a building stack, making the stack unusable,
unless you are sure the stack is no longer needed.
- Try to
arrange the stacks in descending rank if possible because it will make
moving cards to the suit stacks much easier.
Buttons
Clicking on
these buttons will perform the following actions:
- New
Game
- Begin
a new game after shuffling the deck
- Restart
- Return
to the original state of the current game
- Undo
- Return
to the condition before the previous move was made
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Options
- Bring
up a window with the following options:
-
Automatic card moving
- When
this box is set (which is the default), a card atop a stack will
be moved to its suit stack automatically if there are no cards available
which might be placed on top of it.
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