Lady Palk is Diplomat with a single rule loosened. Same eight columns of four, same rank build, same one pass through a stock of seventy-two — but a packed run may be lifted and moved as a unit instead of one card at a time. That one change turns a slow, careful game into a mobile one where whole sequences swap columns to free the card beneath. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
Goal: build all eight foundations from Ace to King by suit.
With a suit-blind build and runs that travel, the board is unusually fluid; the skill is in not letting it become a tangle.
PySolFC registers Lady Palk as Diplomat with the single-card limit removed — its row stack is the plain rank stack rather than Diplomat's one-card wrapper — and rates it balanced where Diplomat is tighter. The same one-rule pairing separates Courtyard from Busy Aces. McClellan takes the same board a third way, with a suit build and three rows hidden.
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.
One rule. A packed run may be moved as a unit; in Diplomat cards move one at a time. The deal, the rank build, the free spaces and the single pass through the stock are the same.
Any descending sequence of consecutive ranks, since suits are ignored on the tableau. A 9, 8, 7 of any suits is a run and may be lifted from the 9 down as one move.
Yes. There is no king rule and no forced fill.
No. The 72 stock cards are turned once, one at a time.
PySolFC records it under this name as a Diplomat variant. Like many named solitaires of the period it was published without an author, and the name is the only history that survives.