Stacks - Hourly card solitaire about building four gardens
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Stacks is a unique hourly card solitaire game where players strategically build four distinct gardens using a deck of 40 cards featuring insects, amphibians, and flowers. Unlike traditional solitaire, the goal is to harvest four-card sets to maximize scores through consecutive number runs or matching life groups. With a fresh game available every hour, Stacks offers a relaxing yet mentally stimulating experience that blends mathematical strategy with nature-themed visuals. Players can use limited redraws to optimize their hand and aim for high-star ratings, making it an engaging daily ritual for puzzle enthusiasts.
Four-card sum times one chain, or same group times five; use only the higher multiplier.
- graynk
Looks cool. You might wanna invest in having a proper tutorial that would play the actual cards onto the field and show them interacting. The wall of text with the rules is hard to parse, to be honest
- weego
I love how this game looks, but the rules and scoring are completely impenetrable and worse, non-intuitive. There doesn't seem to be a connection between what's going to happen with the score vs whats on the card. like, is a white oak connected somehow to a bird more than it would be to a fly or bee (carpenter or otherwise)? Do newts and frogs have a connection to a heron? if not why are they the things they are?
- shinybrick
I love the variety of plants/creatures and the pixel art (handmade, or AI-generated?). Didn't fully understand the rules so randomly picked cards. I want to keep playing and brute-force my way to understanding, but I have to wait to try again! A practice mode or tutorial (as graynk mentioned) would be a nice add.