Summit is a patience game in the golf and peaks family. Twenty-eight cards are dealt into three overlapping pyramids, with a stock of twenty-four beside them. You clear the peaks by playing any uncovered card that is exactly one rank above or below the card currently face up in the waste pile.

The rule that makes it flow is that Kings wrap round to Aces. A King can take a Queen or an Ace; an Ace can take a King or a Two. There are no suits to worry about and no colours to alternate — rank is the only thing that matters, which is why it plays fast on a phone.

How to play

  1. Look at the card in the waste pile at the bottom. That is your current rank.
  2. Any face-up card on the peaks that is one rank higher or one rank lower can be played. It moves to the waste and becomes the new current rank. Playable cards are outlined for you.
  3. A card on the peaks is face down until both cards resting on it have been cleared. Clearing one card often turns two more face up.
  4. When nothing is playable, tap the stock to deal a fresh card to the waste. That resets your chain.
  5. Clear all twenty-eight peak cards to win. If the stock runs out and nothing is playable, the deal is over.

Scoring

Score is built from four things: 40 points for every peak card cleared, a chain bonus that grows the longer you go without touching the stock (the n-th card in a chain is worth 50×n), 25 points for every stock card you never needed, and a small time penalty of two points per second. Long chains and unspent stock are worth far more than raw speed, so rushing is usually the wrong instinct.

Kings wrap round to Aces. Rank is the only thing that matters.

Every daily deal can be won

Before a daily deal is published it is run through a solver that searches for a complete winning line. If the deal cannot be cleared, it is thrown away and another is dealt. So on the daily, being stuck is never bad luck — there was a route, and it went somewhere you did not.

Unlimited mode uses the same guarantee, so you can practise as much as you like without ever hitting a dead deal.

Playing against someone

Your result screen builds a link carrying the exact deal and your score. Whoever opens it gets the identical cards in the identical order and plays for a higher number.