FlowerBed Help Contents

FlowerBed is a solitaire card game.  It is not easy to win, but it is a lot of fun to play.

To learn how to use Help, press F1 or choose How to Use Help from the Help menu.

To learn how to play the game, click on the topics below.

Dealing the Cards

Playing the Game

Strategy and Hints

FlowerBed is shareware.  As such, you are encouraged to do the right thing.

Shareware Notice

About the Authors


Dealing the Cards

The cards are dealt into six columns of six cards, with each card visible and face up.

The remaining 16 cards are spread out so that they are all visible and face up.  These cards are called the hand.

The four spaces on the right are called foundations.  There is one foundation for each suit.

Playing the Game


Playing the Game

Like many other solitaire games, the object of FlowerBed is to build up the foundations in ascending order from Ace to King.  The trick is to move the cards around so that the proper cards become available for moving onto the foundations.

Any card in the hand may be moved.  Only the top card of any column may be moved.  Move cards by dragging and dropping them.  There is a shortcut for moving a card onto a foundation.

Any available card may be moved onto a column if the value of the card being moved is one less than the value of the card on the top of the column.  It does not matter what suit the cards are.

For example, any available Queen may be moved onto any King that is on top of a column.  Or, any available Queen may be moved onto the Jack of the same suit on the top of a foundation.

Cards moved from the hand cannot be returned to the hand.

Cards moved from a column to a foundation may be returned to a column.

When an entire column has been removed, a new column may be started with any available card.

The game is won when all cards in the columns are in descending sequence.  The game is lost when the player decides to give up.

 Strategy and Hints


Strategy
Strategy and Hints

Since cards moved from the hand cannot be returned to the hand, it is sometimes better to not move a card from the hand.

There are only two ways to move a King from a column.  It may be placed on its Queen on the foundation, or it may be moved to start a new column when a column becomes empty.

An empty column is a good thing.  Two empty columns are two good things.

If a card cannot be identified because not enough of it is visible, hold down the right mouse button on the card.

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Shareware Notice

FlowerBed is distributed as Shareware.  This means that users are encouraged, subject to restrictions described in the License Agreement, to share copies of this program with friends, associates and bulletin boards.  Please remember that if you use this software you are required to pay the registration fee of $2 as described in the License Agreement (LICENSE.TXT).

Send payments to:

Don Undis

1017 West County Road D

Shoreview, MN 55126

All proceeds will be used to help send the co-author of this program to college.

About the Authors


About the Authors

Don and Sandra Undis are father and daughter.

Sandra comes up with the ideas, and her dad does the work.

Sandra is in 6th grade, loves to play with computers, watch TV, play games of all sorts, and read.  She plays the french horn.

Don likes to play with computers, watch TV, play games of most sorts, and read.  He plays golf.


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