Read the rule before you look at the table
All 84 levels use the same 52 cards. The only thing that changes is the order you must clear them in, and looking at the table before you know the order wastes the opening seconds.
Updated 31 August 2026
Every level names an order — ascending, alternating colours, suits in rotation, and eighty-one other variations. The cards land the same way regardless. What makes a level hard is how badly its rule fights the way your eye naturally scans a pile.
The habit
- Read the rule, then find only the first card. Do not try to plan three ahead on a pile you have not parsed.
- Alternating-colour levels: scan for colour before rank. Your eye wants to do the opposite and it costs seconds every time.
- Suit-rotation levels: pick the suit order out loud once. Getting it wrong at card forty is worse than spending two seconds now.
Every level is verified solvable to all 52 cards by an automated pass before the build ships. If you are stuck, the card is there — the table is just unreadable, which is the point.
On the hint
The hint highlights the next legal card and nothing more. It does not solve the table and it does not plan for you, so using it does not spoil a level the way a full solver would — it just breaks the deadlock when the pile has stopped reading as cards.
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These are written from the games’ own balance references, but a number that was true in one build can stop being true in the next. If something here does not match what you are seeing, that is worth knowing.
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