Play Black Hole Solitaire on an illustrated moonlit garden table. Seventeen open fans feed one central pile, one adjacent rank at a time. Garden Black Hole follows David Parlett's original single-deck rule profile and adds twenty original planning studies with exact explanations. Play free online with no ads or download.
Tap a fan's outer top card to select it, then press Into hole. Tap it again to clear the selection. Previous and Next fan move the focus; Select fan chooses its top. Arrow keys move focus, Enter or Space selects, P confirms, H hints, U or Ctrl+Z undoes, and Escape clears. Fan details lists each fan from bottom to exposed top and explains the latest study hint.
When two equal ranks are playable, compare the cards behind them. Taking one may open a useful bridge while taking the other leaves every route blocked. The whole deck is visible, so you can plan the next few exposed ranks before committing.
A full game places the Ace of Spades on the central pile, called the hole. The other fifty-one cards form seventeen face-up fans of three. Every rank is visible from the start, but only the outer top card of a fan is available. An empty fan stays empty. There is no stock, redeal, temporary holding cell or movement between fans. The layout keeps stable fan numbers so you can follow a hint or compare two possible routes.
A fan top may enter the hole when it is one rank higher or lower than the current top, regardless of suit. You can change direction after any move. Kings and Aces are adjacent, so Queen, King, Ace, Two is a legal route, as is its reverse. The two acceptable ranks are displayed beside the hole. Equal ranks cannot follow one another, even when their suits differ.
Two legal choices can produce very different exposed cards. Clearing a top card from a three-card fan opens another rank; clearing a single-card fan removes that route entirely. Compare what each move makes available next and which ranks must wait. A useful bridge may need to remain on the board until another fan is ready. There is no hidden draw that can rescue an exhausted route.
The one-rank-up-or-down rule resembles Golf and TriPeaks, but their layouts and stock rules change the puzzle. Here, all fifty-two cards are already visible, the fans are independent, and the only destination is the central pile. This version has no temporary cells. Playing a legal card checks that one move; it does not prove that the remaining fans can all be cleared.
Each study starts at a position legally reached from an original complete deal. The course grows from five to twenty-four remaining cards and from one to ten necessary meaningful decisions. Inferior continuations in the solved decision graph increase at every stage, while equivalent rank-fan outcomes count once. All legal moves are accepted and more than one may preserve a finish. These measurements describe planning pressure, not a promised human solving time.
A study provides exact hints for three distinct positions. A completed search selects a fan with a complete finishing path and may name a different legal fan that blocks every finish in the current position. Read Fan details, then confirm the selected card yourself. Repeating a hint for the same position spends nothing extra, including after Undo. If no finish remains, the hint advises revisiting an earlier choice. A search reaching its limit stays inconclusive and charges nothing.
A random full deal follows the same rules and reveals every card. Some deals cannot be completed. Its suggestion uses a short heuristic to rank legal moves, so following suggestions does not guarantee a win. New deal starts another shuffle; Fixed practice deck supplies a repeatable starting point. The exact study course gives shorter positions whose complete finishing paths and alternative branches have been checked independently.
Undo restores one card to its original fan without refunding hints. Restart repeats the same starting position. A new deal, mode change or study change asks before replacing the current board. Study unlocks, best completion scores and sound preference save locally. An unfinished game restarts after reload, and unavailable storage limits progress to the current session. No account, betting or remote opponent is involved.
Yes. Kings and Aces are neighbours in both directions. A King also accepts a Queen; an Ace also accepts a Two.
No. Its rank is visible for planning, but the cards above it must enter the hole first.
No. Cards move only from a fan top into the hole. Empty fans cannot be refilled.
A legal move may expose the wrong rank or consume the last bridge between two parts of the board. Undo lets you compare another route.
No. It ranks legal moves with a short heuristic. Exact complete-path explanations are provided in the study challenges.
David Parlett created the underlying open-fan patience game. MangoFun's illustrated implementation and the twenty study positions are original work.
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