Scorpion II

Scorpion solitaire. All 52 cards are dealt with no stock: seven columns of seven, plus three more under the middle three columns, and 18 of the cards lie face down. Pick any face-up card, even one deep in a column. If it is the last card of its column and its suit's home pile wants it, it goes home, followed by the next cards of the same suit in order. Otherwise it moves, with every card below it, the scorpion's tail, onto the column whose last card is the same suit and one rank higher. A king can move to an empty column. A face-down card at the foot of a column turns up. When no move is left the game ends, and it is a win if all 52 cards are home. Deals are numbered and can be replayed.

Controls: Use either controller. The stick jumps the cursor from card to card; the left button picks a card and the right button offers GIVE UP.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, October 1988: original Commodore 64 program by Darrell G. Rose. Also on the Best of 1988 disk with its article. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.