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Simple Simon

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4 SUITS Ready to play
Time 00:00 Moves 0 Runs 0 / 4

Select a face-up card, then a destination column. Dragging also works.

AT THE TABLE

A guide to your next move.

All the cards are visible

The following details apply here. All cards are face up from the beginning. The goal is four complete same-suit King-to-Ace sequences. Simple Simon on ahthdj.com uses a single 52-card deck with four suits. There are ten tableau columns and no stock pile.

A wide starting tableau

A few details help explain this feature. No hidden cards remain to be turned over later. The first three opening columns contain eight cards each. All 52 cards are placed in the tableau at the start. The remaining columns contain seven, six, five, four, three, two and one cards.

Find a receiving card

A few details help explain this feature. Single-card placement does not require matching suits. An Ace is the lowest rank and cannot receive another card. An exposed card can land on a card exactly one rank higher. A King needs an empty column because no higher rank exists.

Keep a descending suit sequence

A shorter same-suit segment at the bottom may offer a legal move. Being face up does not make every multi-card group movable. A group moves together only when its selected cards descend in the same suit. A visible card can remain blocked by cards beneath it.

Separate temporary builds

Here are the details for this mode. Planning where each segment can land helps avoid blocking a useful card. A mixed build must be separated into legal groups before those groups can move. A mixed-suit descending build can serve as a temporary arrangement. Open columns can provide space for rearranging suit segments.

Create room to rearrange

Here are the details for this mode. You do not have to reserve empty columns for Kings. Spare columns can help you reconnect separated parts of one suit. An empty column accepts any exposed card or legal same-suit group. A King-led group cannot land on a nonempty column.

There is no stock

The following details apply here. All possible future arrangements depend on the cards already in the tableau. A difficult position cannot receive another row of cards. Simple Simon has no stock-deal action. Undo and Replay provide ways to investigate a different sequence of decisions.

Complete the suits

Here are the details for this mode. Each collected run must contain one suit in order from King down to Ace. Collecting four runs clears all 52 cards. A full qualifying run is removed automatically at the bottom of a column. A descending sequence with a suit change does not count as complete.

Study a visible puzzle

A few details help explain this feature. Replay returns to the same opening arrangement. New game deals a fresh face-up arrangement. Random Simple Simon games are not claimed to be guaranteed solvable. Hint suggests a currently legal move rather than a complete solution.

Keep your progress

The following details apply here. Use Privacy & Cookie Settings to manage or clear the local records. Its saved position is separate from Spider and the other variants. With saving enabled, Simple Simon stores its current game in this browser. My Statistics lists Simple Simon starts, wins and best completed results.