The cards are dealt, open, to ten piles on the table. You may use four temporary spaces, and move one card at a time. You build down on the table, following suit. Only kings may go on free spaces on the table.
>Topic<General comments
This game is rather close to Napoleon and Intelligence Test. In all these games, you have a few temporary positions to help you while you re-arrange the cards. Seahaven can be described as a Napoleon where you follow suit, though there are a few other differences as well.
>Topic<Rules
All cards except two are dealt to ten piles. All cards are open. The last two cards are dealt to two of the temporary positions.
There are four temporary positions (towers).
You may only move one card at a time.
On the table, you may build down, following suit.
On the foundations, you build up, following suit.
Only a king may be played on a free space.
Any one card may be played on a temporary position, but you may not build other cards on it.
If you can play all cards on the foundations, you have won the game.
>Topic<Strategy
Try to keep the temporary positions free. Use them for moving suits of cards from one place to another.
>Topic<Source
Seahaven Towers is a common game among the computer card games, though I havn't found it in any game book. The Mac game Seahaven Towers by Art Cabral has had the biggest influence on my implementation, and seems to be the very first computer implementation of the game.
A note on the name: Rick Holzgrafe told me that I should avoid the name "Seahaven Towers", since that is the name of Art Cabral's product rather than the game. However, the name appears frequently in other solitaire games, e.g. on the Wintels. I have so far failed to get in touch with Art Cabral on the subject. If you know where he is, please tell me!
>Topic<Related games
Napoleon, Intelligence Test and its variation Ingis' Intelligence Test are closely related to Seahaven Towers.
