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Seahaven Towers

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Seahaven Towers in Cardz, played with the Filigree deck
Filigree deck
The Seahaven Towers board4 free cells, 4 foundations, 10 tableaus. Fanned piles are shown with a trail of cards.
Free cellFoundationTableau

Goal: build all four foundations up from Ace to King, each in a single suit.

  • Ten columns of five cards build down in the same suit (a 6 of spades on a 7 of spades).
  • Four free cells hold one card each — two of them start with a card from the deal.
  • Only a King may start an empty column, so freeing your Kings is the opening problem.
  • A descending same-suit run can be dragged as a group, but only as far as free cells and empty columns could relay it by hand: (1 + free cells) × 2 for each empty column.
Read its design file 25 lines

Ten same-suit columns that only a King may start, four cells, and staged moves over a deal that leaves two cards in the cells. Written as a design file, this is the whole game. Make a game explains every part of it.

{
  "name": "Seahaven Towers",
  "family": "FreeCell",
  "aliases": ["Seahaven"],
  "description": "**Goal:** build all four foundations up from Ace to King, each in a single suit.\n\n- Ten columns of five cards build **down in the same suit** (a 6 of spades on a 7 of spades).\n- Four **free cells** hold one card each — two of them start with a card from the deal.\n- Only a **King** may start an empty column, so freeing your Kings is the opening problem.\n- A descending same-suit run can be dragged as a group, but only as far as free cells and empty columns could relay it by hand: **(1 + free cells) × 2 for each empty column**.",
  "depots": [
    { "type": "Cell", "col": 0, "row": 0, "name": "cell", "repeat": 4,
      "acceptRule": { "emptyOnly": true, "single": true } },
    { "type": "Foundation", "col": 6, "row": 0, "name": "found", "repeat": 4,
      "acceptRule": { "seed": "Ace", "build": { "direction": "Up" }, "suit": "Same" },
      "ejectRule": "locked" },
    { "type": "Stock", "col": -1, "row": -1, "name": "stock", "offTable": true },
    { "type": "Tableau", "col": 0, "row": 1, "name": "tab", "repeat": 10,
      "acceptRule": { "seed": "King", "build": { "direction": "Down" }, "suit": "Same" },
      "ejectRule": "faceUp" }
  ],
  "dealRules": [
    { "kind": "dealGroup", "to": "tab", "faceUp": 5, "roundRobin": true },
    { "kind": "dealGroup", "to": ["cell-1", "cell-2"], "faceUp": 1, "roundRobin": true }
  ],
  "depotOnly": true,
  "compoundMoves": "Staged",
  "winCondition": { "kind": "allCardsIn", "depots": "Foundation" },
  "tools": "None"
}
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