A guide to your next move.
Meet Simple Simon
Here are the details for this mode. Simple Simon on quhaozu.com uses a single 52-card deck with four suits. All cards are face up from the beginning. The goal is four complete same-suit King-to-Ace sequences. There are ten tableau columns and no stock pile.
Read the opening pattern
Keep these points in mind. The remaining columns contain seven, six, five, four, three, two and one cards. The first three opening columns contain eight cards each. No hidden cards remain to be turned over later. All 52 cards are placed in the tableau at the start.
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. A King needs an empty column because no higher rank exists. An exposed card can land on a card exactly one rank higher.
Keep a descending suit sequence
The following details apply here. Being face up does not make every multi-card group movable. A visible card can remain blocked by cards beneath it. A shorter same-suit segment at the bottom may offer a legal move. A group moves together only when its selected cards descend in the same suit.
Manage suit changes
Here are the details for this mode. A mixed-suit descending build can serve as a temporary arrangement. A mixed build must be separated into legal groups before those groups can move. Open columns can provide space for rearranging suit segments. Planning where each segment can land helps avoid blocking a useful card.
Create room to rearrange
The following details apply here. A King-led group cannot land on a nonempty column. 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.
There is no stock
Here are the details for this mode. All possible future arrangements depend on the cards already in the tableau. Simple Simon has no stock-deal action. A difficult position cannot receive another row of cards. Undo and Replay provide ways to investigate a different sequence of decisions.
Four runs finish the game
The following details apply here. 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. Collecting four runs clears all 52 cards. Each collected run must contain one suit in order from King down to Ace.
Use the controls carefully
Keep these points in mind. New game deals a fresh face-up arrangement. Replay returns to the same opening 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
Keep these points in mind. Use Privacy & Cookie Settings to manage or clear the local records. My Statistics lists Simple Simon starts, wins and best completed results. With saving enabled, Simple Simon stores its current game in this browser. Its saved position is separate from Spider and the other variants.