Rules

Australian Patience is played with one deck of 52 cards.

After shuffling, a tableau of seven fanned piles of four cards each is laid from left to right.

The remaining cards form the stock are placed facedown at the upper right of the screen. The four foundations (light rectangles in the upper left of the screen) are built up by suit from Ace to King, and the tableau piles can be built down in suit. Every single card in a partial pile, or a complete pile, can be moved, as a unit, to another tableau pile on the basis of its highest card. Any empty piles can be filled with a King, or a pile of cards with a King.

The aim of the game is to build up four stacks of cards starting with Ace and ending with King, all of the same suit, on one of the four foundations, at which time the player would have won.

One card at a time can be dealt from the deck to a wastepile. The top card of the wastepile can be played onto the tableau or the foundations.

There are following variants, selectable from the Settings view:

• Australian Patience with only a single pass through the deck.

• Canberra Solitaire single redeal (two passes through the deck).

• Tasmanian Solitaire with no limit on passes through the deck.

If the player can no longer make any meaningful moves, the game is considered lost.

Menu

You can control the game through the menu with the following commands:

• New Game - reshuffle the decks and start a new play.
• Hint - provide an on-screen hint for all valid moves. The cards that can be moved are outlined in green, the locations where they can be moved to - in yellow. If a card can be moved and another card can be moved on it, it will be outlined in orange.
• Explain - show and explain all possible moves.
• Undo - undo, one at a time, your moves.
• Settings - configure different options the way you like it.
• Scoreboard - we record the number of times you have this solitaire converged. You can get to the Game Center Leaderboard to compare your score to other players.
• How To Play - see the documentation.
• About - brief information about this app, including the links to our website and our Facebook page.

Gestures

You can control the game with the following gestures:

• Tap a card in the tableau or on top of the wastepile to send it to the appropriate place in the foundation or another pile in the tableau if there is a valid move.
• Tap a deck to deal one card to the wastepile.
• Drag a card (or a group of cards) to where you want to move it to.
• Swipe right - show Hint.
• Swipe down - show and explain all possible moves.
• Swipe up - bring up the Settings view.

Settings

You can configure different options the way you like it:

• Mode - select a variant of this solitaire:

  • Australian Patience with only a single pass through the deck.

  • Canberra Solitaire single redeal (two passes through the deck).

  • Tasmanian Solitaire with no limit on passes through the deck.

• Deck on left - show the deck on the left side of the screen.

• Show errors - show an error message if you attempt an invalid move.

• Use large cards - use large print cards, for the smaller screens.

• Autocomplete - move all cards to the foundation when solution is obvious.

• Fast animation - move the cards faster.