Western Solitaire

📝 Special Statement

Step into the elegant, yet deceptively difficult, world of classic card strategy! This isn't just a game of chance; it's a relentless test of foresight, structure, and patience. Your grand objective is clear and singular: to achieve complete order by successfully moving all cards onto the four foundation piles. When you finish, every card must be precisely sorted by suit and rank in ascending order from Ace to King. 👑♠️

The Throne of Order: Mastering the Foundation Piles 🏰

The four foundation piles represent the ultimate goal—the organized structure you must build from the chaotic field. Each of these piles must begin with an Ace of a specific suit and then build meticulously upward, layer by layer, until the King completes the sequence.

• Ascending Rank: $\text{A} \rightarrow 2 \rightarrow 3 \rightarrow \ldots \rightarrow \text{Q} \rightarrow \text{K}$.
• Suit Specificity: A heart must follow a heart, a spade must follow a spade, and so on.

Success is achieved only when these four pillars stand tall and complete, a testament to your tactical brilliance and dedication to the rules of classic solitaire.

The Battlefield of Strategy: Navigating the Field Rules ⚔️🃏

While the foundations require strict ascending order, the main playing area—the field—demands a completely different, inverted logic. This is where the core strategy lies, forcing you to create temporary structures to reveal and organize the critical cards you need for the foundations.

The primary rule for building sequences on the field is: cards can only be sorted in descending order alternating colors.

• Descending Rank: A lower rank must be placed on a higher rank (e.g., a 6 on a 7, a Jack on a Queen).
• Alternating Colors: A Red card (Hearts or Diamonds) must be placed on a Black card (Spades or Clubs), and vice-versa. For example, a Red 5 can be placed on a Black 6, or a Black 4 can be placed on a Red 5.

This constraint forces players to think several moves ahead. Every move you make on the field is designed to achieve two things simultaneously: to reveal face-down cards and to construct stable, flexible sequences that can eventually be moved to the waiting foundation piles. Mastery of these contrasting rules is the only path to conquering this solitaire puzzle and claiming total victory! 🧠