Wave solitaire is fun card game, combining elements from corona solitaire and golf solitaire.
It's relatively easy to win, as long as you watch for inverted cards. If you don't pay attention to the inversions, then you'll quickly find the game unplayable.
The aim of wave solitaire is to build 4 ascending suit sequences to the foundation stacks.
The game starts with 10 manoeuvre stacks, 4 foundation stacks, a talon, and a discard pile.
The cards in the manoeuvre zone are dealt out in a wave pattern, with 2 cards in the first stack, 5 in the next, then 2 again, etc. So the stacks are arranged like this...
2 5 2 5 2
5 2 5 2 5
The manoeuvre zone uses a similar rule to corona solitaire. A card can only be moved to a manoeuvre stack if it is one less in rank, and the same suit. For example, a 6 of spades can be moved onto a 7 of spades.
A card can be moved from the talon to the discard pile at any time. All cards in the discard pile are visible, but only the top card can be played.
The discard pile uses the same rule as golf solitaire- ANY card can be moved to it, as long as it is 1 less, or 1 more, in rank. The suit doesn't matter. For example: A 9 of diamonds, or a 7 of clubs can be played onto the 8 of hearts.
When a manoeuvre column is empty, a card should be automatically moved from the discard pile. If the discard pile is empty, then a card is moved straight from the stock to fill the empty column.
The most important thing in regards to winning wave solitaire, is to look for any inversions. For example, suppose when the game is initially dealt, that one of the stacks looks like this:
5 of Diamonds.
6 of Diamonds.
This is an inversion. The 5 is needed to remove the 6, but the 5 can't be reached because the 6 is in the way. The game cannot be finished without moving the 6 first. To do this, the 6 must be moved to the discard pile at some time when a 5 or an 7 is on top.
If you take notice of all inversions like this at the start of the game, and then work your way through them as you play, then you should have no problem winning wave solitaire.
Dan Fletcher is a developer at dogMelon. They make a pack of solitaire for mac games, which includes many fun solitaire games, including wave solitaire and spider solitaire
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