Garden Card Golf lets you learn two versions of the low-score card game by playing them. Choose six-card or nine-card Golf for a nine-hole match against the computer, or work through 20 prepared Study Challenges. Our rules for the Golf card game with 9 cards use row and column triples, while the six-card version cancels matching vertical pairs. Play free online with no ads or download.
Use Draw stock or Take discard, then click or tap a grid card to replace. Previous, Next card and Select also work, with arrow keys for focus, S for stock, D for discard, X to discard a stock draw, U for Undo and H for Hint. Escape clears selection but keeps an already drawn card pending. In a study, normally hidden cards and the upcoming draw are disclosed as learning information; an H badge marks a card that is still hidden under normal rules, and actual face-up states still determine when the hole ends. A full match keeps unrevealed cards hidden.
Check the whole column or row before replacing a card. A King is worth zero, but swapping it into an existing matching group can break a cancellation and raise your total. In six-card Golf, a pair of twos cancels to zero even though two separate twos would be worth minus four. In nine-card Golf, twos are ordinary two-point cards and Jokers are worth minus two.
This version uses one standard 52-card deck without Jokers and two rows of three cards for each player. Aces score 1, twos score −2, cards 3–10 score their face value, Jacks and Queens score 10, and Kings score 0. Equal ranks in a vertical pair score 0 together; horizontal and diagonal pairs do not cancel. Replacements stay face up. The first completely face-up grid ends the hole immediately, with no extra opponent turn.
The nine-card version uses 52 cards plus two Jokers and a 3×3 grid for each player. Aces score 1, cards 2–10 their face value, Jacks and Queens 10, Kings 0 and Jokers −2. A complete equal-rank horizontal or vertical triple scores 0. Diagonals and pairs do not cancel, and cancelled cards remain in the grid. This is a stated family version of Golf; other households use different scoring and ending rules.
Reveal any three cards at the start. Before drawing, you may make one opening reposition: move a revealed card that matches another revealed card by swapping it with a different grid position, only when that places the matching cards in the same row or column. Each swapped card keeps its face-up or hidden state, so this does not reveal a hidden card. You may skip this option. During play, choose the stock or visible discard, then replace a grid card, or discard a stock draw without an extra reveal.
For this nine-card family profile, the first fully revealed grid triggers one final turn for the other player and then one for the triggering player. Already complete grids do not restart that sequence. In either profile, consuming the last stock card ends the hole after the drawn card has been replaced or discarded; remaining cards are exposed and scored. This stock-out boundary is our explicit house rule for six-card Golf. There is no reshuffle, and stock-out takes priority over an unfinished nine-card final-turn sequence.
The first ten lessons use six-card Golf; the next ten use nine-card Golf. These are prepared, reachable positions from complete deals, with upcoming draws and normally hidden cards disclosed for study. Later lessons require longer sequences of meaningful choices and more competing scoring decisions. Each starting position has a verified route to its displayed score target against the specified computer policy. That does not promise victory over every opponent or with every shuffled deck.
Full matches deal hidden shuffled cards and play nine holes, alternating the first player each hole. The lower cumulative score wins; equal totals are a tie. The computer chooses using revealed information and the remaining card distribution, without looking at your hidden cards or the stock order. A visible subtotal during a hole is not the final score. Full matches are separate from Study Challenge unlocks.
Undo reverses your complete action and the computer response; undoing a pending draw restores the same top card. Study hints use the disclosed lesson information within a limited allowance; normal-match hints use public information, including a card only after it is drawn, and do not guarantee a win. If a bounded study hint search cannot verify a route, it reports that limitation. Challenge unlocks, best scores and sound preferences save locally when storage is available. Unfinished holes and matches are not restored after reloading.
The aim is a low card total across nine deals, called holes. In the six-card version here, matching ranks in a vertical column cancel; the nine-card family version instead cancels complete matching rows or columns and changes some card values. Choose a profile before playing and follow its setup, scoring and ending rules below. Four-card Golf and other household versions use different rules.
No. Twos score −2 in six-card Golf but 2 in nine-card Golf, which instead has −2 Jokers. Six-card Golf cancels vertical pairs; nine-card Golf cancels complete horizontal or vertical triples.
No. Cancellation requires equal ranks. A Jack and Queen both score 10, but they do not match each other.
No. In these profiles, throwing away a stock draw does not automatically turn over a grid card. A card picked from the visible discard must be used as a replacement.
No. The aim is the lowest score, not the earliest reveal. Ending a hole at the wrong time can leave you with a higher total.
Study Challenges are explicitly open-information lessons with prepared positions. Full computer matches keep the stock order and unrevealed cards hidden.
No. Study Challenge progress is separate from full-match results. You unlock later studies by completing their preceding lessons.
Garden Card Golf lets you learn two versions of the low-score card game by playing them. Choose six-card or nine-card Golf for a nine-hole match against the computer, or work through 20 prepared Study Challenges. Our rules for the Golf card game with 9 cards use row and column triples, while the six-card version cancels matching vertical pairs. Play free online with no ads or download.
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