Squeeze

What Squeeze is

Squeeze is accordion patience, the folding card game, played on a short row of thirteen cards instead of the whole deck. A card may jump onto the card directly to its left, or onto the card three places to its left, if the two match in suit or in rank. The card that moves sits on top, and its pile slides along to close the gap.

Every move shortens the row by one. The round ends when no more moves exist, and the fewer piles left, the more comes back: one single pile is the rare perfect fold.

The order of moves matters a great deal, and the best one is rarely obvious. After every move we search all possible continuations and mark the move that leads to the fewest piles: green for the card to move, a dashed outline for where it goes. Play the suggestion, play your own way, or stop the row whenever you like; the paytable assumes the suggested moves.

Playing a round

1. Pick a stake of 5, 15, 25, 75 or 150 px.
2. Press Deal a row. Thirteen cards are laid out left to right.
3. Tap a card that can move, then its target, or use Play the suggested move.
4. When no move remains, the number of piles is matched to the paytable.

Paytable

What each result returns. Multiply by your stake, or by the line or column stake where the table says so. The table is printed from the file the game reads.

Fair play

Every shape, picture, card, die and token is drawn by your browser's cryptographic random source at the moment you press the button. Nothing adapts to you, to your pixels or to how long you have played, and no round remembers another. The paytable on this page is printed from the same data file the game reads. Pixels carry no cash value, cannot be bought, and there is nothing on the site to spend them on.

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