How to play
Success in Grandee requires that every stock row is absorbed by the suit-down tableau and all eight foundations finish. The game declares completion only after all interacting restrictions agree at the same time.
- The Grandee opening separates permanent constraints from player-controlled positions. Fourteen tableau piles build one card at a time downward in suit, receive stock rows, and feed eight foundations without a waste pile or redeal. Its versioned seed recreates those same constraints locally while keeping unrevealed decisions out of the guide and board labels.
- Grandee treats the printed or dealt restrictions as hard constraints, not suggestions. Fourteen tableau piles build one card at a time downward in suit, receive stock rows, and feed eight foundations without a waste pile or redeal. A move that contradicts the current state has no effect, including after the game has ended.
- Success in Grandee requires that every stock row is absorbed by the suit-down tableau and all eight foundations finish. The game declares completion only after all interacting restrictions agree at the same time.
Strategy tips
- Extend same-suit descents evenly across fourteen piles before accepting a stock row, leaving several foundation exits for the rank pattern about to arrive.
- Dealing onto suit-blocked piles without a waste or redeal creates permanent top-card congestion, especially when one-card movement cannot relocate a packet.
- Close Grandee by auditing the boundary cases first and the obvious placements second. The position is not done until every stock row is absorbed by the suit-down tableau and all eight foundations finish.