Pyramid Solitaire - Cards

Pyramid Solitaire plays nothing like the build-it-up games. There are no foundations to stack and no long descending runs to chase. Twenty-eight cards are dealt into a seven-row pyramid, and your only job is arithmetic: find two exposed cards that add up to thirteen and clear them away together.

An Ace counts as one, a Jack eleven, a Queen twelve - and a King, worth thirteen all by itself, simply leaves on its own. A card becomes playable the moment nothing overlaps it, so the pyramid melts from its base upward, opening fresh pairs with every removal. When the table stalls, the stock deals new cards to match against what remains.

How a round goes:

• Match two uncovered cards that total 13 to remove the pair
• Kings (13) clear by themselves, no partner needed
• Only fully exposed cards can be played
• Draw from the stock when the pyramid offers no pair
• Take the whole pyramid apart, all 28 cards, to win

It runs offline, in your language, with no account and nothing to sign up for. A quick, mental-maths kind of solitaire - easy to start, surprisingly tactical to finish.

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