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Glossary

  1. Base Card
  2. Build By Alternate Color
  3. Build By Any Suit But Own
  4. Build By Color
  5. Build By Rank
  6. Build Regardless Of Suit
  7. Build By Suit
  8. Build Down
  9. Build Down By n
  10. Build Up
  11. Build Up By n
  12. Build Up Or Down
  13. Building
  14. Deck
  15. Double Deck
  16. Foundation
  17. French Deck
  18. Ganjifa Deck
  19. Hanafuda Deck
  20. Hex A Deck
  21. Joker Deck
  22. Mekuri Karuta
  23. Open Layout
  24. Pile
  25. Rank
  26. Reserve
  27. Skat Deck
  28. Slot
  29. Standard Deck
  30. Stripped Deck
  31. Stock
  32. Suit
  33. Super Move Stack
  34. Tableaux
  35. Talon
  36. Tarock Deck
  37. Unsun Karuta
  38. Value
  39. Waste
  40. Wrap

Editor's note: These definitions are meant as a guideline only. See individual game rules as any game may redefine or modify the rules to make it fun. Changing a single rule in a game can create a game with a very different set of possibilities such as Klondike, Klondike by Threes and Klondike Flip Threes.

  1. Base Card:

    2. The first card dealt into a foundation pile. Other foundations usually have to start with a card of this rank. See:     Foundation.
  2. Build By Alternate Color:

    3. Building by placing a card on to another card of a different color is permitted. Example: Placing a Diamond on a Spade is good, but placing a Diamond on a Heart is not.
  3. Build By Any Suit But Own:

    4. Building by placing a card on to another card of any suit but the suit of the original card is permitted. Example: Placing a Diamond on a Heart is good, but placing a Heart on a Heart is not.
  4. Build By Color:

    5. Building by placing a card on to another card of the same color is permitted. Example: Placing a Diamond on a Heart is good, but placing a Diamond on a Club is not.
  5. Build By Rank:

    6. Building with cards of the same rank.
  6. Build Regardless Of Suit:

    7. Build Up or Build Down ignoring suit.
  7. Build By Suit:

    8. Building by placing a card on to another card of the same suit is permitted. Example: Placing a Spade on a Spade is good, but placing a Spade on a Club is not.
  8. Build Down:

    9. Building by placing a card of a lower rank on to a card of a higher rank is permitted. Usually implies a difference of only one ranking between the two cards. Example: Placing a 10 on a Jack is good, but placing a 10 on a 9 is not.
  9. Build Down By n:

    10. Building by placing a card of a lower rank on to a card of a higher rank by n is permitted. Example: If n is 2, placing a 10 on a Queen is good, but placing a 10 on a Jack is not.
  10. Build Up:

    11. Building by placing a card of a higher rank on to a card of a lower rank is permitted. Usually implies a difference of only one ranking between the two cards. Example: Placing a Queen on a Jack is good, but placing a Queen on a King is not.
  11. Build Up By n:

    12. Building by placing a card of a higher rank on to a card of a lower rank by n is permitted. Example: If n is 2, placing a 10 on an 8 is good, but placing a 10 on a 9 is not.
  12. Build Up Or Down:

    13. Building by placing a card on to a card of one higher or one lower rank is permitted. Example: Placing a Jack on a Queen or a 10 is good, but placing a 10 on a Queen is not.
  13. Building:

    14. The ability to place a card or group of cards on another card. In regards to rank, you can:     In regards to suit/color, you can: Note that most games that build will follow two of these rules, one from each list.
  14. Deck:

    15. The set of cards used. Most games use the     Standard Deck or French Deck, but some games use a Double Deck, a Joker Deck, or a Stripped Deck.
    Pysol has games that use card and tile sets (decks) of the following types:
  15. Double Deck:

    16. A deck of cards consisting of two     Standard Decks making a total of 104 cards. Some Pysol III games use three or more decks.
  16. Foundation:

    17. If a game has a foundation, the game is usually won by placing all the cards in the foundation(s).
  17. French Deck:

    18. See     Standard Deck. For historical reasons the court cards (face cards) in the most commonly used French deck use the English court images.
  18. Ganjifa Deck:

    19. One of several different types of playing cards from India. The three basic types are:
    • Mughal, 96 cards in eight suits of twelve cards each
    • Navagraha, 108 cards in nine suits of twelve cards each
    • Dashavatara, 120 cards in ten suits of twelve cards each
    Dashavatara decks sometimes have additional suits and may have more than two or three hundred cards. See     About Ganjifa for more information.
  19. Hanafuda Deck:

    20. A 48 card deck of playing cards from Japan. Also called Flower cards. See     About Hanafuda for more information.
  20. Hex A Deck:

    21. A 68 card deck derived from a modified French deck used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Consists of four suits of sixteen cards and four Wizards that frequently exhibit unpredictable behavior. See     About Hex A Deck.
  21. Joker Deck:

    22. A deck of cards consisting of a     Standard Deck and two jokers making a total of 54 cards. See Thieves.
  22. Mekuri Karuta:

    23. Playing cards from Japan. Essentially identical to 48 card decks used in Italy and Western Europe. See     About Karuta for more information.
  23. Open Layout:

    24. All of the cards are dealt face up to the tableaux at the start of the game.
  24. Pile:

    25. A designated area where cards can be played. Also called a stack or a slot.
  25. Rank:

    26. The value of the card. Numbered cards usually have the rank of the associated number. Aces can either be high or low. If high, aces are ranked 1. If low, aces are ranked as 14. J, Q, and K are usually ranked 11, 12, and 13 respectively. However, some games may rank these cards as 10. In such a case, a high ace might be ranked as 11.
  26. Reserve:

    27. Cards in the reserve are usually available to play anywhere. Usually cannot be built on, and generally will only accept one card.
  27. Skat Deck:

    28. A 32 card deck from Eastern Europe. Consists of four suits of eight cards each. The     Ranks are Ace, seven through ten and Unter, Ober and Roi. German suit symbols are generally used.
  28. Slot:

    29. See     Pile. Sometimes referred to as a stack
  29. Standard Deck:

    30. A 54 card French deck. There are four suits of thirteen cards each and two Jokers. The Jokers, one red and one black, are not used in most solitaire games. Each suit contains an Ace, 2 through 10, Jack, Queen, and King. These suits are usually Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. These suits can be grouped into two colors, usually black and red. The Clubs and the Spaces are black while the Hearts and the Diamonds are red. All editions of PySol allow the possibility of using different decks. In this case, the new colors and/or suits are substituted into this paradigm.
  30. Stripped Deck:

    31. This is usually the 32 card Skat deck. There are four suits of eight cards each. Each suit contains an Ace, 7 through 10, Jack, Queen, and King. Skat games being more comon in eastern Europe, Skat decks frequently use suits, courts and colors other than the French. Some Pysol III games use other stripped decks such as the Unsun Karuta game     Order of Battle and the Tarokk deck Wave Motion Variations.
  31. Stock:

    32. See     Talon.
  32. Suit:

    33. Four different kinds in a     Standard Deck. Usually Clubs, Spades, Hearts, and Diamonds. Alternate decks such as the Ganjifa Decks, the Hanafuda Deck and the Unsun Karuta have a different number of suits and different suit signs.
  33. Super Move Stack:

    34. A Super Move Stack is a stack that uses empty free cells or other row stacks as card holders when the stack logic allows only one card to be moved at a time.
  34. Tableaux:

    35. The playing field, where the main action occurs. Usually allows building.

    The "Tableaux" field in the help files indicates the type of stack behavior, vis:
    "Talon" the most common talon, deals one card to a waste stack.
    "Spider talon" only deals cards if none of the rows are empty.
    "Deal row talon" deals one card to each of the rows on the tableaux.
    "Initial deal talon" deals all the cards at the start, usually not on the tableaux.
    "Play on deal talon" moves playable cards to the foundations while dealing.
    "Carthage talon" the talon deals according to the rules of the game.

    The Tableaux field is automatically written when a game is played with debugging turned on. This will only work if the player has write permission in the ../pysol(iii)/data/html directory.

  35. Talon:

    36. The remainder of the deck after all the original cards have been dealt. These are usually kept face down.
  36. Tarock Deck:

    37. Playing cards from Eastern Europe. Consists of four suits of 14 cards each and 22 trump cards. See     About Tarokk.
  37. Unsun Karuta:

    38. Playing cards from Japan. See     About Karuta for more information.
  38. Value:

    39. See     Rank.
  39. Waste:

    40. A stack of cards face up, usually next to the     Talon. The top card is usually in play. Some games use a Waste Talon that is a combination of the two stacks with the top card of the talon face up and in play.
  40. Wrap:

    41. In some games card sequences may wrap around. This means that     Build Down wraps from the lowest card to the highest and Build Up wraps from the highest to the lowest. This also applies in games that build up or down by n cards such as Wizard's Wonder and Abacus.

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