How to play
Success in Dial requires that every clock position completes the independently assigned rank and alternating-colour suit sequence. The game declares completion only after all interacting restrictions agree at the same time.
- The Dial opening separates permanent constraints from player-controlled positions. Thirteen clock-position foundations each follow their own assigned alternating-colour suit cycle rather than a common suit build. Its versioned seed recreates those same constraints locally while keeping unrevealed decisions out of the guide and board labels.
- Dial treats the printed or dealt restrictions as hard constraints, not suggestions. Thirteen clock-position foundations each follow their own assigned alternating-colour suit cycle rather than a common suit build. A move that contradicts the current state has no effect, including after the game has ended.
- Success in Dial requires that every clock position completes the independently assigned rank and alternating-colour suit sequence. The game declares completion only after all interacting restrictions agree at the same time.
Strategy tips
- Read every clock position as its own suit schedule and compare two possible moves by which one uncovers the rarer next suit-rank combination.
- Assuming neighbouring clock piles advance through the same suit order sends a legal-looking card to the wrong sequence and blocks its assigned position.
- Close Dial by auditing the boundary cases first and the obvious placements second. The position is not done until every clock position completes the independently assigned rank and alternating-colour suit sequence.