r/solitaire

As part of my learning exercises on how to make device agnostic "push images from one div to another using plain vanilla CSS, HTML and JavaScript", I've completed The Shooting Party, a game designed by John Kean.

This is about 12th contemporary solitaire card game I've translated into JavaScript, taking a bit more time to learn good practices of unit testing, modularization etc and writing notes for my future self and anyone else interested with links at the bottom of my home page.

I'll now start the process again of applying for Google Adsens approval. Last time I got rejected because I still had links to more ambitious "human vs AI" games which turned into a lesson why you have to spend billions on datacentres instead of just using a $5/month hosting service. My site got "rejected for being unresponsive" since the AI player was way too slow at figure out moves. I've now removed all those links so hopefully Google will ignore them.

Limiting my ambitions to just solitaire card games has made things way more manageable since just focusing on contemporary web app stuff is hard enough, and its brought the added bonus of introducing me to contemporary solitaire card game design.

When I was a child, I often watched my grandfather sit alone in the living room and play a rather unusual solitaire game.

I never learned its official name. I only remember the rules:

- Deal the cards into four rows.

- Remove all Jacks, Queens, and Kings.

- You may remove three exposed cards when their total is 9, 19, or 29.

- Continue dealing and removing valid combinations.

- Strangely, whenever the game is completed successfully, a single 3 remains.

After my grandfather passed away, my mother often talked about how much she missed this game. Playing it with physical cards while commuting wasn’t practical, so I decided to recreate it as an iPhone game for her.

Since I still don’t know its original name—and because the last remaining card is always a 3—I called it Lucky 3.

Has anyone here played this solitaire variant before? Does anyone know its traditional or original name?

I’ve released my recreation on iOS. If anyone is interested in trying it, I’d be happy to share the App Store link in the comments.

Same as the title is solitaire where don't have to watch ad and aren't limited with shuffles

As title says. Can't find the post where the table is for whether each day can be solved ...