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Loomwork on the table

Open table

A fresh deal every time you sit down.

Sit down: Loomwork

House rules

Loomwork

Ten columns, 104 cards, eight threads to weave. Build runs down in rank, move a run when it is all one suit, and weave a full King-to-Ace run off the table. The daily deal is one suit; the weekly deal is two suits.

Room
Patience
Game
Patience
Made for
1998
Play Loomwork

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

How to play

  • Click a card to move its run, or drag it.
  • Click the stock to deal a row.
  • Arrows move the cursor, Enter or Space pick up and place.
  • U undo, H hint, Q deal, E end, X cancel.
  • P to pause.

On touch

  • Tap a card to move its run to the best column, or drag it.
  • Tap the stock to deal.
  • Undo, Hint and End sit along the bottom.

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

Maker’s note

Spider patience was the long-haul sibling of the family card game: two decks, ten columns, and a table that keeps filling up until you find the thread. We dealt our own: our own faces on a felt table, a daily deal everyone gets in the same order, and a one-suit day to ease in. Every move is written down as a move, not a mouse position, so a cleared table can be checked card by card and the fastest clean weave of the day earns its place on the board.

The Eracade workshop

Target scores

  1. 1100
  2. 2250
  3. 3400
  4. 4600
  5. 5900
  6. 61,300
  7. 71,700
  8. 82,100

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.

Every Patience table

Your hands

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