How to play
The goal is to build all the cards up by suit, from ace to king, in the four piles in the top right corner. In the seven columns on the table, cards are stacked in descending order with red and black alternating: a black five goes on a red six. You can also move a whole stack at once. Only a king fits in an empty column.
When the last face-up card of a column moves away, the card under it turns over. You draw one or three cards at a time from the deck, whichever you choose when you start the deal. When the deck runs out, you can turn the drawn cards back over into a new deck.
Tap a card and it moves to the best spot, or drag it wherever you want. Undoing moves is free, and once all the cards are face up, the piles build themselves. The face cards are characters from the Finnish forest: a lumberjack, a queen crowned with a Midsummer wreath and a forest king decked out in lingonberries.
Almost every deal can be won, as the game quickly looks for a way through before it deals. Finding it still takes careful play, and New deal is always there. The game is saved after every move, so you can carry on later where you left off.
Scoring
Points are counted as in the familiar Windows Solitaire:
- a card from the deck to the table: 5 points
- a card to a pile: 10 points
- turning over a card on the table: 5 points
- a card from a pile back to the table: −15 points
- turning the deck over again: −100 points in a one-card game, and −20 points after the third pass in a three-card game
- the clock takes 2 points every 10 seconds
When you win, you also get a time bonus: 700,000 divided by the seconds you played. A quick win is worth thousands of points. If you get stuck, you can buy a hint with tokens, and it shows you a good next move.
Tips
- Turn over the hidden cards first: moves that reveal a new card are usually the best ones.
- Don’t empty a column for nothing unless you have a king to move into it.
- Don’t send cards to the piles too early if you still need them on the table to build on.
