## Description
_Solitaire King: Beleaguered Castle_ is a single player card game, in this
game the player is estimated to have a one in four chance of success.
This title was of a number of freeware games that the developer released to
promote interest in the full product, Solitaire King which had thirty-one
different games and over eighty variations thereof.
The game is played with a standard deck of fifty-two cards and the object is
to arrive arrange all four suits in an ascending sequence. The game starts
with the four aces being arranged in the centre of the game area, the
remaining forty-eight cards are made into eight groups of six cards and are
placed with one group on either side of each of the four aces. All cards are
placed face up, overlapped and exposed within groups. Cards are moved one at a
time. Any card can be moved onto the pile in the centre as long as it is of
the same suit as the original ace and it follows in sequence. Likewise any
card can be moved onto another row if, regardless of suit, the card it is
moved onto is one higher in sequence – so a ten can be moved onto a jack and
later a nine can be moved onto the ten etc.
The game contains two variations. In _Street and Alley_ the aces are not
placed in the centre when the game starts. The player deals the full deck in
four rows of seven and four rows of six and an ace is only moved to the centre
as it is released. The other variation is _Citadel_ , here the aces are
shuffled into the body of the deck but as they are encountered in the deal
they are placed in the centre as are any subsequent cards that can be placed
on them. So in this variation if the Ace of Hearts was discovered early on in
the deal then when the Two of Hearts is dealt it would be placed on the ace
immediately followed, if possible, by the Three and Four etc should they be
discovered in sequence.
The game has save/load and undo/redo functions but has no sound and no
statistics are kept. It is played entirely with the mouse
Solitaire King: Beleagured Castle