Seven columns, four foundations and a stock, played by one person against the
deal. Three axes of variation, which is what most people mean by house rules
for patience: one card off the stock or three, how often the waste may be
turned back over, and whether an empty column will take anything or only a
king. A single pass through the pack is redealLimit = 0.
A spot is a kind and an index rather than a class per kind. Every place a card
can be in this game is one of four things identified by at most one number, so
a pair says everything a hierarchy would and crosses the wire as two plain
fields.
A tableau pile keeps its face-down and face-up parts separate, because that
split is the game: a column is only worth what has been turned up, and what is
buried is the thing being played for. Stripping the turned-up run off a column
turns the next card, which is where most of a deal is won.
Shifting a whole column into an empty one is not offered as a move at all. It
achieves nothing and would let a game walk back and forth for ever -- which
matters here more than usual, because isFinished is "won, or nothing left to
try", and a game that can always shuffle pointlessly is never blocked.
Turning a packet over reverses it, so drawing three leaves the deepest of the
three showing, and a redeal puts the top of the waste at the bottom of the new
stock. Both are tested, because getting either backwards is invisible until
somebody counts the cards.
The AI orders its preferences rather than scoring finely: home always, then
turning a card up, then emptying a column, and aimless shuffling between
columns below drawing, so it is only reached when there is nothing else. That
ordering is what keeps it from walking a run between two columns for ever.
Not in GameCatalog yet -- id now, entry with the screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Urn6eEBA6XzrnfoibL7faC
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