Free Cell, in 1022 characters of code, and no sprites! twitter | itch
You can only move one card at a time; if you want to move a stack of cards you have to take it apart and put it back together manually. This is different from "standard" solitaire, and it makes Free Cell particularly interesting! It also makes the implementation a bit easier to fit into the tiny code-size constraint ;)
Congrats! Enjoy the win animation here: https://pancelor.itch.io/solitaire-win-animation (I wanted to add a "you win" animation to this game, but I didn't have the room to fit it in... so I made it as a separate cartridge)
The source is in the cart, of course, but it's here too. Remember to enable puny text mode (cmd-p) before pasting this into your local PICO-8 console:
(there's an extra space in there near the end because the BBS text editor seems to choke on the < symbol)
An earlier, more readable, and much longer version of this code can be found here
Some of the more bizarre tricks I used to squeeze every bit of functionality out of my 1024-character budget:
Yeah! 63-😐 is 24414.5, which is the address I need to poke to get those slick shadows! Check out this post for more info.
wait until the next frame and clear the screen with ?"⁶1⁶c6"