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Peel a 144-card wall across twelve columns onto one foundation, up or down a rank at a time, but the run dead-ends at Ace and King instead of wrapping.

Panther Creek Solitaire is Thomas Warfield's supersized take on Golf, played across four full decks. Twelve columns are laid out with twelve face-up cards each, a wall of 144 cards, and a single foundation is seeded with one starter card. Your job is to peel the tableau away onto that foundation, one card at a time, until every column is empty.

The building rule is the heart of the game. A card can go onto the foundation if it is exactly one rank higher or lower than the current top card, and suit never matters. Where Panther Creek bites is at the ends of the ladder: it does not wrap. An Ace dead-ends the run downward and a King dead-ends it upward, so the sequence stops cold rather than looping from King back to Ace. That single restriction is what separates Panther Creek from its close relative Lincoln Greens, where the run wraps freely around the corner.

When the tableau offers no legal play, you turn the stock. The remaining sixty-three cards feed the foundation one at a time, and you get only one pass, so a card wasted on the stock is a chance you will not get back. With four decks in play there are usually several routes forward at once, and the skill lies in choosing the branch that unlocks the most buried cards.

Lincoln Greens Solitaire and Golf Solitaire sit closest to this one on the site.

Panther Creek fans should also check out the original Solitaire.

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How to play Panther Creek Solitaire

Layout:

1 foundation pile: Build up or down regardless of suit, one rank at a time. The run does not wrap, so it dead-ends at Ace going down and at King going up.

12 tableau piles: Dealt twelve face-up cards each. Cards may not be built on the tableau; the top card of any column is played directly to the foundation.

Stock: Turn cards one at a time straight onto the foundation. There is only one pass through the stock.

Foundation:

There is one foundation pile, dealt a single starter card at the beginning. Four decks are used, so every rank appears many times.

A card may be added to the foundation if it is one rank higher or one rank lower than the current top card, in any suit. Because the run never wraps, an Ace can only be followed by a 2 and a King only by a Queen; there is no King-to-Ace or Ace-to-King jump.

The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.

Tableau:

Twelve columns are dealt across the table, each with twelve cards, all face-up.

Cards are never built on the tableau and empty columns are not refilled. Only the top card of a column is available, and it may be moved solely to the foundation. Clearing all 144 tableau cards wins the game.

Stock:

The sixty-three cards left after the deal form the stock. Click it to deal one card at a time directly onto the foundation, continuing the up-or-down sequence. You only get one pass through the stock, so spend it when the tableau stalls rather than out of habit.