How to play
Twenty-eight cards are dealt into a pyramid of seven rows, the cards of the upper rows each partly covered by two cards of the row below. The goal is to clear the whole pyramid by removing cards in pairs.
The values of a pair must add up to 13. An ace is 1, number cards are worth their number, a jack is 11 and a queen 12. A king is 13 on its own, so it goes alone. Only cards with no other cards on top of them are in play.
Tap the stock to turn its top card next to it. The top turned card pairs with the pyramid’s cards. When the stock runs out, tap its place to gather the turned cards back into the stock. You can go through the stock three times, and the badge under the stock shows how many passes are left.
A deal ends when no moves are left. If you clear the whole pyramid, you go on to the next deal, and its points are added to the same run. Undoing a move is free, and the game is saved after every move.
Scoring
- each pair or king removed: 5 points
- each row cleared: 25 points
- the whole pyramid cleared: a 250-point bonus
- time bonus: 30,000 divided by the deal’s seconds (at most 1,000)
- each pass through the stock left unused: 100 points
The run goes on as long as you keep clearing pyramids, so the points grow deal after deal. If you get stuck, you can buy a hint with tokens, or once a run, one more pass through the stock.
Tips
- First remove the cards that set new cards free in the pyramid.
- When two cards could pair with the same card, pick the one higher in the pyramid or covering more cards.
- A stock card with no pair yet is not wasted: it comes round again on the next pass.
