The family-PC classic — now it turns the wheel
CHAKRA
चक्र · the wheelGood old Klondike Solitaire. Every card you lay on a pile turns it one key round the circle of fifths — G, D, A, E… round the wheel and home to G on the King. Hear every key change; see every key signature.
Hear it:
Who is playing
Players
One phone, one deal. Each player plays the very same deal in turn — then the podium: a finished game beats an unfinished one, then the higher score.
Open a room and send its word. Everyone plays the same deal on their own phone — first to finish wins.
Got a word from a friend?
How you play
The deal
How to play
- The classic rules. Build four piles, one per suit, from Ace up to King. On the table, build down in alternating colours (a red 6 on a black 7). Move a whole face-up run at once; only a King may fill an empty space. Tap the stock to turn cards over — one at a time or three. Drag a card, or tap it to send it where it fits.
- The wheel. The circle of fifths: each key one step from its neighbours, G at the top. Black suits (♠ ♣) go clockwise, adding a sharp each step — G, D, A, E, B, F#… Red suits (♥ ♦) go anticlockwise, adding a flat — G, C, F, Bb, Eb… The Ace is home, G; the King comes home to G again — the whole wheel.
- Hear the key change. Each step plays a real modulation: the old key, a pivot chord both keys share, the new key's dominant seventh, and home. Going sharpwards a new sharp leans up into the new key; going flatwards a new flat leans down.
- Ears, in four levels. Sharper or flatter; key signatures up to three sharps or flats; the relative minor; and neighbouring keys by ear. In Ears every card you send up is won with an answer — a wrong one slides the card back to try again.
- Who. Just me. Same device: everyone plays the same deal in turn. Online room: everyone races on one deal.