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Ashlar Pairs on the table

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A fresh deal every time you sit down.

Sit down: Ashlar Pairs

House rules

Ashlar Pairs

Twenty-eight cards laid in a stone pyramid. Take free cards in pairs that total thirteen; Kings go alone. Turn the stock one card at a time, recycle it only a few times, and bring the whole pyramid down. The daily deal allows two recycles; the weekly deal allows one.

Room
Patience
Game
Patience
Made for
1999
Play Ashlar Pairs

Free, no sign-up. Mouse, touch or keyboard.

How to play

  • Click a card, then its partner.
  • Click a King to remove it.
  • Click the stock to turn a card.
  • Arrows move the cursor, Enter or Space pick and place.
  • U undo, H hint, Q turn, E end, X cancel.
  • P to pause.

On touch

  • Tap a free card, then tap the card that makes thirteen with it (or drag one onto the other).
  • Tap a King to take it.
  • Tap the stock to turn a card.

Take as long as you like. Pause any time with P; calm mode turns off every flash and shake.

Maker’s note

Pyramid patience is the tidy little sum of the card table: a stack, a total and a stubborn last pair. Ours is a quiet stone pyramid with our own card faces, a pair-finder that glows the partners, and a hint that tells you the pair that frees the most. The same deal goes to everyone each day, each move is recorded as a move, and the quickest clean clear takes the top of the board.

The Eracade workshop

Target scores

  1. 1100
  2. 2200
  3. 3350
  4. 4500
  5. 5700
  6. 61,000
  7. 71,300
  8. 81,600

Each target is a step up. Reach the last one and you have outplayed the workshop.

In the Patience room

Solitaire. One player, one deal, all the time you like.

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