How to play simple simon card game

Available on HoloLens. Description Simple Simon Solitaire is similar to Spider Solitaire but with some small differences which makes this game more strategic. Show More. Additional information Published by Reborn Games.

Published by Reborn Games. Copyright Copyright Reborn Games. Developed by Reborn Games. Approximate size Age rating For all ages. This app can Access your Internet connection. Permissions info. Installation Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows 10 devices. A mixed-suit sequence of cards can be moved to a different location, given enough empty columns or parent cards to place intermediate components and sub-sequences of cards on.

This is similar to FreeCell only with the individual components of the sequence being the same-suit sub-sequences rather than individual cards as in FreeCell. Note that some implementations of Simple Simon, require the player to do all the moving of the individual components by himself. Freecell Solver, an automated solver for various Card Solitaire games, was adapted to solve Simple Simon, by its primary developer, Shlomi Fish, back in September, Fish initially tried implementing the solver using individual Simple Simon moves, but that ended up causing the program to check many states without a visible end.

So instead, he opted for a scheme in which every sequence of moves conducted by the solver ended up in either clearing a column, moving a card on top of a card of the same suit, or more rarely moving a column to the foundations.

Implementing this strategy turned out to be sufficient for solving many games, and so it was kept. Most of the rest were unsolvable by the solver but not necessarily by a human player , with a median of 8 iterations. Stephan Kulow has commented that this is "what makes the game a joy: either it's impossible to solve and you see it in the first moves or it's solvable and you only have to find the best route.

A programmer called Michael Mann added another type of move to Freecell Solver which placed cards above a parent of a different suit. In the version included in the Solitaire Whizz app , the 1-card column is on the right, though this is arbitrary. Simple Simon layout in Solitaire Whizz for iPad. The bottom card of any column is available for play. Cards are built on to the foundations, one pile per suit, starting with the Aces.