Easthaven Solitaire


Rules

Easthaven Solitaire is played with one deck of 52 cards.

After shuffling, a tableau of seven fanned piles of three cards each is laid from left to right. The top card of each pile is face up; all others are face down.

The remaining cards form the stock are placed facedown at the bottom right of the screen. The four foundations (light rectangles at the top of the screen) are built up by suit from Ace to King, and the tableau piles can be built down by alternate colors. Every face-up 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 any card, or correctly ordered pile of cards.

When there is no face-up card left on a pile, the top face-down card is turned up and becomes available.

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.

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

You can select Strict mode in the Settings view that only allows Kings in the empty tableau piles.

You can also choose between single, double or tripple deck. Double deck variant has eight foundations and eight tableau piles, while triple has twelve.

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 on the table to send it to the appropriate place in the foundation or another row in the tableau if there is a valid move.
  • Tap a deck to deal one card to each tableau pile.
  • 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.

Menu

You can configure different options the way you like it:

  • Number of decks - choose between Single deck, Double deck or Triple deck.

  • Strict - only Kings go to empty tableau.

  • Sort foundations by suit - sorts where the Aces go in the foundation.

  • Sort order - select the order of suits in foundation:

    • ♣ ♦ ♥ ♠ English alphabetical

    • ♦ ♣ ♥ ♠ Alternating colors

    • ♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ High reds

    • ♦ ♥ ♠ ♣ Low reds

    • ♣ ♥ ♦ ♠ Chinese-Japanese-Korean

  • 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.