Cruel Solitaire Strategy Guide

Cruel Solitaire is an unusual solitaire game, which many people think has a low success rate. However, careful planning will allow the advanced solitaire player to win over 50% of the games they play.

The trick to winning cruel solitaire is knowing when to deal from the claw. When you

first start playing cruel solitaire, it seems to be about the random claw

shuffle the cards, but it’s not like that. A deal from the heel only spreads the

cards in the same order they currently appear.

This allows an advanced player to have some insight into what will happen when

the heel deal is done… which greatly improves the chances of winning every game of

cruel solitaire you play.

There are certain easy to learn patterns that help with this.

If all piles to the left of a pile have 4 cards before the deal, then

after the deal, the card that is on top will stay on top.

For example, suppose the first 3 stacks appear like this:

Stack-A: 4 cards

Pile-B: 4 Cards

Stack-C: 5 Cards with a 5 of Diamonds on top.

All piles before Pile-C have 4 cards, so after a deal, all 5 of

Diamonds will still be at the top of Stack-C.

This is the same no matter how many cards are in Stack-C. So if stacks are like

is:

Stack-A: 4 cards

Pile-B: 4 Cards

Stack-C: 2 Cards with a 5 of Diamonds on top.

So the 5 of Diamonds will still be on top of Stack-C after a heel rollover.

But if a previous stack doesn’t have 4 cards, then the card will NOT stay on top.

after a renegotiation.

So if the stacks are like this:

Stack-A: 5 cards

Pile-B: 4 Cards

Stack-C: 2 Cards with a 5 of Diamonds on top.

So the 5 of Diamonds will NOT be on top of Stack-C after a deal.

Knowing this pattern will give you much greater control over the cruel loner, and

allows for some powerful strategies that will greatly increase your chances of

victorious.

DO NOT ALWAYS MOVE CARDS TO THE FOUNDATION…

Due to the pattern above, it doesn’t always make sense to move a card to the

heel at the earliest opportunity. Instead, you can keep the card and make sure

that you do not put extra cards in the piles to the left.

This way, you can keep dealing, expose new cards, and KNOW that the

the card will always remain in play. Only when you can’t make any more moves should you

then you move the card to the foundation.

This gives you the greatest opportunity to continue playing, without crashing the game. plaster

leads to a general procedure, which you can follow to win many more games of cruel

lonely…

A GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR WINNING CRUEL SOLITAIRE…

Here is a procedure that will help you win cruel solitaire. It’s not perfect, and you

he’ll probably make his own mods as he gets better at the game, but it shows

how to play cruel solitaire carefully to avoid crashes.

A – Find the rightmost card that can go on the claw.

B – Make as many moves to the right of that card as you can, starting with the highest rank

one is

C-Renegotiation

D – Return to A

Once there are no more moves that can be made to the right of the card, then move

the card on the pile to the foundation, and then deal, and return to A.

If you can’t play any cards, then sort as many cards as you can, starting with the highest ranked.

some, and then deal.

That’s it!

You can definitely modify this procedure to make it better, but I’ve tried to keep it

simple here, and should allow you to play cruel solitaire much better than before.

Have fun!