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Vanishing Cross (also called "Corner Card" and "Four Seasons") is a
solitaire card game which is played with a deck of playing cards.
First, five cards are dealt in form of a cross: three cards are placed in a row, then two cards are
each placed above and below the middle of the three cards. A sixth card is dealt in the upper left
corner of the cross. This card will be the base for the first of four foundations. The three cards of
the same rank are placed in the other three corners of the cross to become the foundations themselves.
The foundations are built up in suit and building is round-the-corner, i.e. aces are placed above
kings, except when aces are the foundation bases.
Cards in the cross are built down regardless of suit and any space in the cross is filled with any
available card, whether it is the top card of a pile within the cross, the top card of the wastepile, or
a card from the stock. Like the foundations, building in the cross is round-the-corner, i.e. kings are
placed over aces, unless aces are the foundations. Only one card can be moved at a time.
Whenever the game goes on a standstill, the stock is dealt one card at a time into the wastepile, the
top card of which is available for play on the cross or on the foundations. There is no redeal.
The game ends if a standstill occurs after the stock has run out. The game is won when all cards end
up in the foundations.
There are many keys you can use to make your game playing more efficient:
- Space
- Auto-finish—In foundation games, this moves all the cards it can up to the foundations
- z
- Undo
- x
- Redo
- n
- New Game
- g
- Replay the same game
- f
- Flip a card from the stock
There is also a card-finder keyboard feature you can use to help you locate cards:
- a
- Highlight the aces
- 1 though 9
- Highlight the cards with the rank pressed
- 0 or t
- Highlight the tens
- d, c, h, s
- Highlight the cards with the suit
- r, b
- Highlight the red or black cards
You may combine the rank keys with the suit or color keys. For example, if you hold down the "5" key and
the "d" key then only the 5 of diamonds will be highlighted. "a" and "r" will highlight the red aces.
There are ways to use the mouse to make your game playing more efficient:
- Left Click
- Move the card to the most logical place (might not be the best move, however)
- Left Click in Empty Area
- Auto-finish—In foundation games, this moves all the cards it can up to the foundations
- Right Click
- Undo
You can use super moves to make your game playing more efficient.
Clicking or dragging a card that isn't immediately accessible will attempt to move all the cards
above it in its stack until the move is valid. The effect will be the same as clicking each card. If you
cancel the drag or undo the move, all the cards will go back to where they were.
Dragging a card or cards to the middle of a stack will attempt to move all the cards above the
destination out of the way. The effect is the same as clicking each card. To see where the cards will
move, hold the dragged card(s) at the destination for a second. If you decide to move the dragged
card(s) somewhere else, just drag them there and the other cards will go back to where they
were. Undoing the move will also move the cards back.
If you drag a card or cards to the middle of a stack and the cards that move away would be valid to
move back on top of the dragged card(s), then they'll slide out of the way and let you just slip the
card(s) in.