Karanos Solitaire is a relaxing combo-building card game designed for short solo gameplay sessions.
## About This Game
## Karanos Solitaire
Karanos Solitaire is a single-player card game using a traditional deck of
cards with an original ruleset, built on grouping cards into best scoring
combos. Playtime: 5 minutes per game.
## Features
* Minimal interface
* Relaxing gameplay
* Many cardback options
* Color themes
## Rules
You can play the game using your own deck of cards following the rules
detailed below!
Goal
Your goal is to remove all cards from the game, scoring as many points as
possible.
Setup
1. Remove all face cards from the deck, leaving only aces and numerals. 40 cards in total.
2. Shuffle the deck, then reveal the top 3 cards placing them next to the deck. Like so:
Available Actions
1. Move a card from the bot row to the top row, revealing top deck card into the bot row
* When the deck has one card left, flip it over, use it as a bottom row card
2. Move a card from the top row to the back of the deck
3. Remove top row cards matching a valid combo (listed below) from the game
4. Remove a top row card from the game
Combos and Points
When a combo is matched and the cards are removed from the game, you gain the
number of points the combo is worth. The following are all possible game
combos and their point values:
Name | Matches | Value
—|—|—
Pair | ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀[A+A] or [2+2] or [3+3].. | 2 points
Chain | ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀[1+2+3] or [2+3+4] .. or [9+10+A] or [10+A+2] | 3 points
Flush | ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀any 3 cards of the same suit | 3 points
Royal | ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀both chain and flush | 7 points
Triple | ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀[A+A+A] or [2+2+2] or [3+3+3]..⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | 8
points
Additionally, whenever a single card is moved from the top row, your points
are reduced by 1.
Furthermore, If all cards are used as a part of a combo, gain additional 11
points.
Victory
The game can be considered won if you score 40 points or more, but no reason
to stop there!
Karanos Solitaire