Napoleon  -  Patience card game

by Alan Stout


Napoleon is a version Patience known as Napoleon of St. Helena. The object of Napoleon is to build up 8 ascending suit sequences, Ace through King.

The rules
Two standard 52 card decks are used in Napoleon. 10 columns of 4 cards are initially dealt to form the tableau. Only the bottom card from each column is available to play. The remaining cards from the two packs are played singly onto a heap, and are either played onto the foundations or built onto the tableau in descending suit sequence. Unplayable cards remain on the waste heap. Available tableau cards may similarly be played one at a time onto the foundations or onto another column of the tableau. When an entire column of the tableau is cleared, the empty space may be filled by any one available card from the heap or the tableau. This card should be chosen carefully as it may raise opportunities for releasing other useful cards.

How to play
Use the mouse to drag and drop the cards to their correct positions. If you click with Adjust on an exposed card, the program will automatically attempt to place it on the correct target foundation. Clicking with Adjust on an exposed Ace will relocate it to the first available empty foundation space.

You are permitted to undo your last move when you consider a better alternative is available, but you cannot retrace your steps any further than that.

If the program detects that the game can be completed successfully, it will take over from the player and transfer the cards to the foundations automatically.

If you do complete a game, click Select on the card table to receive your prize.

Contacting the author
If you have any comments about or suggestions for possible improvements to Napoleon, you can contact the author at:

	Alan Stout
	Bamford House,
	14 Silver Street,
	Tetbury,
	Glos. GL8 8DH.
	email: 100332,1554@compuserve.com

Declaration
This product has been developed with Silicon Vision's WimpGEN and RiscBASIC compiler and contains fully licensed binary images of the WimpGEN and RiscBASIC runtime libraries. The WimpGEN and RiscBASIC runtime libraries are the copyrighted property of Silicon Vision Ltd.

WimpGEN and RiscBASIC are trademarks of Silicon Vision Ltd.

 Copyright RISC User Magazine 1996
