Use exposed cards to reveal the hidden peaks.
Tri Peaks has 28 tableau cards: ten face-up cards along the bottom and eighteen initially hidden cards above them. A higher card becomes available when both cards that cover it are gone. Play exposed cards one rank above or below the waste top, with Ace and King adjacent.
Last updated: September 2026
Compare access before taking an equal rank
The three peaks connect to a shared bottom row. Each covered card names the two lower positions that block it. Removing only one blocker does not expose that card; removing the second does. When two legal bottom cards have the same rank, check whether either completes a pair of blocker removals.
Suppose the waste shows 7, bottom position 20 has been cleared, and positions 21 and 25 each hold an 8. Both 8s are legal. Position 11 is hidden under positions 20 and 21, so playing the 8 at position 21 reveals it. Playing position 25 does not reveal that same card. The value of a move depends on the current board, not just its peak.
Keep a rank path through newly exposed cards
A removal changes the waste top to the card just played. After revealing a hidden card, check whether its rank continues the run. The new card may be unavailable until its other blocker is also removed. Avoid planning a chain through a face-down card as though its rank were known.
Ace and King wrap in this version. A Q → K → A line is legal if each card is exposed at the time of play. Suits do not matter. Clearing all 28 tableau positions wins; remaining stock is allowed.
Use the stock as a limited reset
One of the 24 non-tableau cards starts the waste; 23 remain in stock. Drawing one changes the active rank, with no redeal. You may draw despite having a legal tableau move, so compare whether the available move reveals another card before spending a draw. The drawn rank is unknown until it appears.
Pyramid Golf shows every covered card in its single pyramid, allowing longer lookahead. Golf uses visible columns with no covering relation. The shared adjacency rule calls for different access decisions in each layout.