How to play
You complete Ripple Fan when all four Ace-to-King suited foundations complete after the open fans and any number of ordered redeals are resolved. The full Ripple Fan position determines the outcome; visual shortcuts never replace the documented Ripple Fan terminal rule.
- Ripple Fan begins with one deck spread over thirteen fans, four empty foundations, and an ordered redeal counter that permits repeated compaction without shuffling. The Ripple Fan deal identity and PySolFC Ripple Fan v1 are stored together. Restarting Ripple Fan reproduces this opening exactly.
- During Ripple Fan, you move exposed same-suit descending cards, start and build suited foundations from available Aces, or collect and redeal remaining fan cards in order. The Ripple Fan engine rejects profile violations, unavailable material, and every action attempted after Ripple Fan reaches a terminal result.
- You complete Ripple Fan when all four Ace-to-King suited foundations complete after the open fans and any number of ordered redeals are resolved. The full Ripple Fan position determines the outcome; visual shortcuts never replace the documented Ripple Fan terminal rule.
Strategy tips
- A reliable Ripple Fan plan is to record how compaction changes fan tops and move a card only when it exposes an Ace or a continuation that improves the next ordered redeal. A Ripple Fan hint is legal and deterministic. The next Ripple Fan hint exposes one bounded action; it never claims a forced Ripple Fan win.
- A costly Ripple Fan mistake is to expect unlimited redeals to randomize the layout; cards retain a deterministic collection order and can repeat the same dead pattern. Undo supports studying that Ripple Fan decision, while restart preserves the original seeded Ripple Fan opening.
- In the Ripple Fan endgame, reduce uneven fans before another redeal so the remaining same-suit chains land on different tops and feed foundations directly. Check every remaining Ripple Fan action before committing because its terminal rule is enforced immediately.