- Orchard is a single-player card solitaire game played with 9 randomly chosen cards from an 18-card custom deck:
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The aim is to score as many points as possible (55+ points is considered an almost imposs-apple result).
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First, the player takes two cards as a hand and places the third card on the table.
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On each turn, the player places one of the cards at hand on the table and draws the next card if it is available. The game ends when all 9 cards are placed or no legal placement can be made.
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A card can be placed either vertically or horizontally. At least one of its spots must overlap with at least one of the spots already on the table.
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A spot on the card must match the spot it is going to overlap. It is possible to break this rule for two spots per game. In this case, a "rotten" token is placed on each mismatching spot, and subsequent cards cannot overlap them anymore.
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When two matching spots overlap, the player places a matching scoring die on this area (if the die is available). The player has five scoring dice of each color (blue, red, green). If a "rotten" token is placed on a spot with a die, the die is returned to the player supply.
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If another matching spot is about to be placed on top of a scoring die, the die is lifted up and rotated to show the next score. The scores on a die are 1, 3, 6, and 10 points.
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At the end of the game the total score is calculated as a sum of individual die scores. Each "rotten" token reduces the total score by 3 points.
Console version:
poetry run python cli_orchard.pyGUI version:
poetry run python gui_orchard.py