FreeCell Solitaire for PalmOS

Copyright © 1997-2003 Electron Hut

Table of Contents:

How to play
Moving cards
Options

How to Order
Support

How to play

The game starts with the entire deck dealt face up into eight columns. The object is to move all the cards into four stacks by suit, starting with aces.

Cards can be moved between columns, but must remain in descending rank order and alternating suit colors. For example, a red six may be moved onto any black seven.

Four free cells are also available as temporary card holders. Each free cell can hold a single card, and any card can be moved to an empty free cell.

Any card may be moved to an empty column.

When there is only one move left, FreeCell will display a warning at the bottom of the card columns.

If there are no moves left, the game is over.

Moving cards

To move a card, tap on it to select it then tap on the location you want to move it to.

Double-tap on a card to find the "best move" for that card and move it there.

To move a card to the aces, double-tap on it, or press page-up. You can also turn on 'automatically move to aces' which will move cards to aces after each move you make.

Moving stacks of cards
You can move stacks of cards by using the free cells as temporary place holders. For example, to move a stack of 3 cards, move the bottom 2 cards to the free cells, move the 3rd card to the new column, then move the 2 cards from the free cells to the new column.

Instead of individually moving each card in the stack, FreeCell automatically does this for you. Simply select a stack of cards and if there are enough empty free cells or columns, the stack will be moved automatically.

The size of the stack you can move depends on the number of empty free cells, and number of empty columns. If size of the stack you can currently move is displayed on the screen between the free cells and aces. This number assumes the use of all empty columns as well as free cells, so if you try to move a stack to an empty column, you will not be able to move as many cards as displayed, since the column you are moving to cannot be used as a temporary place holder.

Undo
You may undo the previous move by selecting Undo from the FreeCell menu, typing a backspace (right-to-left Graffiti stroke), or pressing the page-down button.

Quick view
You can quickly see where all the cards of a particular rank are by typing the rank using graffiti or the keyboard. For example, type 'A', and the aces will flash momentarily. Use the numbers 2-9 for number cards, 1 or 'A' for aces, 0 or 'T' for tens, 'J', 'Q', and 'K' for face cards. The selected cards will temporarily highlight.

Options

Select a topic below:

Control options
Display options
Sound options

Game options

Control options

Automatically move to aces
Causes cards to be moved up to aces after every move you make.

Only move "safe" cards
Restricts the game from moving cards up to the aces which could still be needed in play. This affects the 'auto' feature, pressing page-up, and double-tapping (or single-tapping in single-tap mode) to move cards to aces.

Single tap mode:
Tapping on a card once will auto-play it to the best move avaialable.

Double tap mode:
Double tapping on a card will auto-play it to the best move available.

Allow moving cards off aces:
Allow cards to be moved back down from aces into play.

New game confirmation:
Prompt when starting a new game.

Detect end of game:
Pop up a "game over" message when there are no moves left.

One move left warning
Show a warning message when there is only one move available

Display options

Bold card border
On high-resolution displays, choose between a single or double pixel card border.

Large suits
Display large suit icon on cards.

Shade red cards (color)
Outline red suits (greyscale)
On color displays this option shades red suited cards.

On greyscale or monochrome displays this option draws the hearts and diamonds as outlines to make them easier to see.

Animate cards
Animates cards moving from one position to another.

Fast stack moves
Normally stacks of cards are moved one card at a time. Enable this option to move stacks in a single move.

Unsafe warning
Displays a warning icon on any card moved up to the aces that could still be needed in play.

Background color
Choose the background color. This option is only available when running on OS 3.5 or higher.

Free cell position
Move the free cells to any of the four corners of the screen.

Sound options

Select the desired volume for the sound effects.

Selecting "Game Prefs" will use the game sound volume setting from the Preferences application.

Statistics

Statistics are kept of all your games played, including total games won/lost, and longest winning and losing streaks.

Tap the 'reset' button to reset the statistics to zero.

Select game

Options for picking the next game:

Random:
Select a random game between 1-1000000.

Select:
Choose a specific game by number.

Next game:
Play the next game in sequence.

Replay game:
Replay the current game.

How to Order

You may purchase this game at Handango.com. Visit the following link to see our product page at Handango:

www.handango.com/electronhut

Support

If you encounter any problems using FreeCell, please visit our support website at:

www.electronhut.com/support

If your question is not answered on our support website, email us at:

support@electronhut.com