Rules

Napoleon at St. Helena is played with two decks of 52 cards each.

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

The remaining cards form the stock. The eight foundations (light rectangles in the top of the screen) are built up by suit from Ace to King, and the tableau piles can be built down in suit. Only top card from any tableau pile can be moved to another tableau pile or to the foundation. Any empty piles can be filled with any card.

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

The player may take one card at a time from the stock and play to the tableau, the foundations, or to the wastepile.

The player may use the top card from the wastepile.

The player may only go through the stock once.

Variants (selectable from the Settings view):

• Josephine: cards of the same suit built down can be moved as a unit.
• Relaxed variant allows one additional pass through the stock.

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 in Josephine) to where you want to move it to.
• Swipe left - undo your previous move.
• 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:

  • Napoleon at St. Helena - only a single card can be moved.

  • Josephine Solitaire - cards of the same suit built down can be moved as a unit.

• Strict (no redeals) - only allow single pass through the stock.

• 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.