Canfield Solitaire Instructions

Version 1.02 (Mar 16 2000) Copyright © 2000 Andrew Pipkin apipkin@pagesz.net

Overview

Like Klondike solitaire, the goal of Canfield is to move all the cards in a deck to suit stacks of ascending rank, forming stacks of descending rank an alternate color as an intermediate stage. Cards are drawn from a deck three at a time. Unlike Klondike, the base card of the suit stacks is usually not an ace. In addition to the deck, 13 cards are placed in a reserve of which only the top is accessible.

Layout

There are four parts of the screen.

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:
  1. A card can be moved from the reserve, deck or top of the building stacks to the suit stacks if the card's suit is the same as the cards in the stack and the card's rank is the base rank of the building stack or one more than the card at the top of the stack. (Aces are placed on top of kings in the suit stacks.)

  2. A card from the reserve or deck can be moved to the top of a building stock if the card has a different color and a rank one less than the card at the top of the stack. (Kings can be placed on aces.)

  3. A card from the reserve can fill to an empty building stack. If the reserve is empty, a card from the deck can fill an empty building stack.

  4. An entire building stack can be moved to the top of another building stack.

A card will be automatically moved to the suit stacks from 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.

Buttons

Clicking on these buttons will perform the following actions:
New Game
Begin a new game after shuffling the deck
Restart
Return to the original state of the current game
Undo
Return to the condition before the previous move was made
Options
Bring up a window with the following options:
Number of cards drawn
This option determines the number of cards which are turned up from the deck at a time. The number can vary from 1 to 5, with 3 the default.
Number of redeals
This sets the additional number of passes which can be made through the deck
Display deck contents
Setting this option will display a listing of the deck, highlighting the available card. After the initial pass through the deck, upcoming cards will be displayed above the current card, with the accessible cards appearing in the rightmost column. Occasionally it is beneficial to refrain from removing a card from the deck because it will a set up a better order in the subsequent pass through the deck. Listing the deck will show when these instances occur.
Automatic card moving
When this box is set (which is the default), a card atop a building stack will be moved to its suit stack automatically if there are no cards available which might be placed on top of it.

History

Version 1.02 (2000/03/16)
Right-clicking added
Version 1.01 (2000/01/23)
Options added
Version 1.0 (2000/01/13)
First public release

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