Meet Scorpion
Here are the details for this mode. Moves build down in the same suit rather than allowing cross-suit destinations. Scorpion on olagafoods.com uses one 52-card deck with four suits. Four complete King-to-Ace runs clear the game. The tableau has seven columns.
Read the opening cards
The following details apply here. Three cards remain in the stock. All cards in the last three columns are face up. Each opening column contains seven cards for a total of 49 tableau cards. The first three cards in each of the first four columns are face down.
Check rank and suit together
A few details help explain this feature. A seven of hearts cannot land on an eight of spades. A moved group's leading card must land on a card exactly one rank higher in the same suit. A seven of hearts can land on an exposed eight of hearts. A King cannot land on another card because no higher rank exists.
Order within a group may vary
The following details apply here. The selected cards do not need to descend in rank to travel together. The leading selected card still has to meet the destination rule. Any face-up card can be selected together with every card beneath it. The selected cards do not need to share a suit to travel together.
Only Kings fill empty space
The following details apply here. An empty column accepts a King or a group led by a King. An empty column is therefore less flexible than an empty column in ordinary Spider. A group led by a lower rank cannot enter an empty column. Cards beneath a moved King do not need to be in sequence.
Reveal the hidden cards
Undo restores the earlier hidden-card arrangement when the move is reversed. An exposed card can carry the cards beneath it when its own destination is legal. Removing all face-up cards above a hidden card turns that hidden card face up. The next hidden card is revealed automatically.
The final three cards
Here are the details for this mode. Dealing places a face-up card on each of the first three columns. There are no further stock cards after the three-card deal. The stock contains one final deal of three cards. This Scorpion version permits its stock deal when columns are empty.
Complete a suit
A completed run must descend from King to Ace in one suit. Moving an unordered group does not make that group a completed sequence. All thirteen cards in a collected run must be face up. The game removes a qualifying run automatically from the bottom of a column.
Practice Scorpion decisions
The following details apply here. Hint lists legal choices without promising a winning continuation. A move can carry unwanted cards along with a useful leading card. Checking the whole moved group helps you anticipate what will become blocked. Replay and Undo let you explore another approach to the same layout.
Save a Scorpion session
Here are the details for this mode. Random Scorpion shuffles are not advertised as guaranteed winnable. Scorpion keeps a separate saved position when game saving is enabled. My Statistics records Scorpion starts and wins separately from other variants. Privacy & Cookie Settings lets you remove local saved games and results.