Exploding Solitaire 2026

This was the "Mystery Game #2" offered during the "Don't Feed the Aliens, Deranged Dialogue, Bugaboo" Kickstarter campaign. The designer has stated he'll never publish it again, and due to the limited number of backers, there may be only 28 copies.

Exploding Solitaire is a version of Solitaire using a five-suited (all identical) deck, numbered 1-13, with four Bomb cards. First six columns are created, each with five face-down cards, with a sixth card on the bottom face-up.

The rest of the game involves either drawing one card and playing it to any column, or moving face-up cards between columns if they are of lower rank. If a Bomb card is revealed it removes all non-sequential cards from a column which are then redistributed. The goal is to get each suit back in numerical order, from 13-1.