Diplomat deals eight columns of four and lets you keep any column you empty. Congress deals eight columns of ONE, and the moment a column empties the top of the waste drops into it — or the next stock card, if the waste is bare. Rank build, one card at a time, one pass through ninety-six cards. Also known as President's Cabinet. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Goal: build all eight foundations from Ace to King by suit.
Ninety-six cards will pass across the waste once, and eight column tops are all you have to catch them with. You never get a space, so the tops are everything.
PySolFC derives Congress from Diplomat with two lines changed — a one-card deal and the forced fill — and draws its eight columns as two fanned groups either side of the foundations, which is a picture rather than a rule; they are a row here. Parliament is Congress with the eight Aces founded before play. The forced-fill pairing with an open-space sibling is one the Forty Thieves family repeats: Corona against Limited, Courtyard against Busy Aces.
Like every game in this family here, the first stock card is left for you to turn rather than dealt to the waste at the start.
Two rules. Diplomat deals eight columns of four and lets you keep an empty column; Congress deals eight columns of one and fills an empty column at once from the waste, or from the stock when the waste is bare. Both build down by rank one card at a time with one pass through the stock.
Only after the stock and the waste are both exhausted. Until then every space is refilled immediately with a card you did not choose.
The next card is turned off the stock and placed straight into the column. A forced fill can therefore cost you a stock card you never got to consider on the waste.
No. The 96 stock cards are turned once, one at a time.
PySolFC registers President's Cabinet as an alternative name for Congress; the two names describe the same rules.