Rules

Mount Olympus Solitaire is played with two decks of 52 cards each.

First, all aces and deuces are removed from the decks and placed in two rows to form foundations. Then the remaining 88 cards are shuffled and nine of them are laid out on the tableau. These nine cards start each of the nine piles in the tableau.

Building on the 16 foundations is up by suit in intervals of two:

• On the aces: 3-5-7-9-J-K
• On the deuces: 4-6-8-10-Q

Building on the tableau is down, also by suit in intervals of two (i.e. the 5♠ must be placed on the 7♠). A sequence of cards (such as 6-8-10♣) can be moved as one unit. Any appropriate card can be placed on the foundations at any time.

Empty tableau spots are immediately filled with a card from the deck. If the deck is empty, any card may be used to fill the tableau’s empty places.

Once all possible moves have been made or the player has made all moves he wanted to make, a new set of nine cards are dealt from the deck, one for each pile.

The game is won when all the cards are in the foundations with the kings and queens on top.

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.
• 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 you 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 tableau to send it to the appropriate place in the foundation if there is a valid move.
• Tap a deck to deal a row of cards to the tableau.
• Drag a card (or a group of cards) to where you want to move it to.
• Swipe right - show Hint.
• Swipe up - bring up the Settings view.