Game Help/Castle (Solitaire)
   

The objective of Castle solitaire is to erode the "wall" stacks on the sides of the layout by placing their contents in the suit stacks in the middle. Castle can be considered "FreeCell without free cells", but card stacks do not need to have alternating colors and the aces are already removed to compensate (partially) for the lack.)


Castle

Layout
There are two types of card stacks:
Building Stacks There are four building, or wall, stacks on the left and right sides of the layout. A building stack can accept a card of any suit provided that the card's rank is one less than the rank of the card currently at the top of the stack. An empty building stack can accept any card from the top of another stack. Suit Stacks The suit stacks are located in the middle column of the layout and initially contain an ace. Suit stacks can accept a card from the tops of the building if the suit is the same, and the rank is one more than the rank of the card at the top of the stack.

Moving Cards
To move a card, click on the card (which will highlight it) and then click on the destination. The following are valid moves:
A card at the top of a stack can be moved to its corresponding suit stack if the rank of the card at the top of that stack is one less than the card's rank (Kings have a rank of 13, queens 12, jacks 11 and an ace has a rank of 1).

The card at the top of a building stack can be moved to an empty building stack.

A card can be moved from a building stack to another building stack if the card at the top of the destination stack has a rank one more than the card.

Ordered cards at the top of a building stack can be moved to another building stack if there is a card in the ordered sequence which has a a rank one less than the card at the top of the destination stack. There must be an empty space for every moved card below the top card.
To move an ordered sequence of cards at the top of a stack to an empty building stack, first select all the ordered cards by clicking twice on the stack, then click the empty space. If there are fewer empty spaces than selected cards, the number of cards moved will equal the original number of empty spaces.

A card will be automatically moved to the suit stacks from the tops of the building stacks if the cards which might be placed on top of it are already in the suit stacks. Clicking undo will retract an automatic move.

Powerpoints
15 Powerpoints are awarded for every game successfully completed