Accordion

Accordion is a video game in the puzzle genre developed by UnSane Creations and published by UnSane Creations originally released in 1990. It is currently playable on Amiga.

Accordion is a solitaire card game. Cards are dealt face up one at a time and the object of the game is to condense all cards into a single pile. To build the piles, cards are moved from the left to a card or pile on the right. The piles can be moved one or two cards to the left if the card on the left is of the same suit or if the card on the left is of the same number. The game starts with four cards dealt and the player can choose to make a move or deal another card. If there are no legal moves that can be made with the cards dealt, more cards are automatically dealt.

The rules of Accordion can be customized giving a total of 228 different variations to play. Changes that can be made include how far cards can be moved left and right (from one to three), whether cards can be in the same number or not, and whether cards can be in the same suit or color. By changing this it is possible to make the game easier or harder to play. There is also a cheat option where the computer will try to find a way to condense the cards into a single pile. If it can, it will make a move towards that goal each time the cheat option is used.

There are two versions of the game on the disk. In addition to the full implementation, there is also a stripped down version with more basic graphics and no in-game help. It only takes up 33 KB compared to the 100+ KB of the full version, but is functionally identical.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.