Rules

Crazy Quilt Solitaire is played with two decks of 52 cards each.

First, one Ace and one King of each suit are taken out to form the foundations. The rest of the cards are shuffled, and 64 cards are dealt into eight rows of eight cards each. Each row should have its card alternately placed vertically and horizontally in this order. The resulting layout resembles a chessboard with vertical and horizontal cards alternating. This reserve is called the “quilt”.

The cards on the quilt with their shorter sides exposed, i.e. cards with one of their shorter sides not touching another card, are available for play to the foundations or the top of the wastepile. The foundations that start with the Aces are built up by suit while those that start with the Kings are built down also by suit.

The stock is dealt one at a time onto the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile can be used to build on the foundations and be built up or down by suit using cards from the quilt. The top card of any foundation can also be played.

Once the stock runs out, the wastepile (which includes cards acquired from the quilt) is gathered and turned faced down without shuffling to be used as the new stock. This can be done only once in the entire game.

A relaxed version (sometimes called Indian Carpet), configurable in Settings, allows an extra redeal, in order to make the game easier. An Easy Game, with three redeals, is also available, but won’t be recorded on the Leaderboard.

The Solitaire converges when all cards, both from the quilt and the wastepile, end up in the foundations.

Menu

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

• New Game - reshuffle the deck 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 any card can be moved to the wastepile and the card on top of the wastepile can be moved to foundation - that card will be outlined in orange. If there are no valid moves, the deck will be oulined, indicating that you have to deal a card.
• Undo - undo, one at a time, your moves
• Settings - configure different options the way you like it.
• Scoreboard - see the number of times you have this solitaire converged. You can get to the Game Center Leaderboard to compare you score to other players.
• How To Play - see the documentation.
• About - brief information about this app, including the links to this website and our Facebook page.

Gestures

You can control the game with the following gestures:

• Tap a card on the table to send it to the appropriate place in the foundation if there is a valid move.
• Double Tap a card on the table to send it to the wastepile.
• Tap a card on top of the wastepile to send it to the foundation.
• Tap a deck to deal a card to the wastepile.
• Swipe left - undo your previous move.
• Swipe right - show Hint.
• Swipe up - bring up the Settings view.

Settings

You can configure different options the way you like it:

• Re-deal limit - how many times the wastepile can be re-dealt.

  1 - Crazy Quilt allows one re-deal

  2 - Relaxed rules, also known as Indian Carpet

  3 - Easy Game mode; not recorded in Leaderboard

• 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.

• Show card counters - show the number of cards in the deck and in the wastepile.

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

• Tap anywhere to deal - you can tap anywhere on the table to deal the next card.