Golf (Solitaire)

Setup

With a standard, 52-card deck, deal a tableau of seven columns of five cards each, all face up. Place one additional card face up to form the foundation, set the rest of the cards in a face down stock.

Play

The topmost card of any column may be moved to the foundation if it is exactly one rank higher or lower than the top card of the foundation. That may wrap around the corner (A can be played on K and vice versa). At any time, the top card of the stock may be added to the foundation to change the foundation's value.

End

Loss: if there are cards remaining in the tableau without valid moves to the foundation or cards remaining in the stock.

Win: when the tableau is empty -all tableau cards have been moved to the foundation.

Scoring (optional): One point per card remaining in the tableau. If there are no cards in the tableau, then score -1 point for every card remaining in the stock.

Golf solitaire setup. The stock and foundation are at the top, above the seven tableau columns

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