スコーピオンソリティアの基本戦略と始め方アドバイス。
スコーピオンソリティアの初心者向け戦略：ゲームに勝つための10の方法
スコーピオンソリティアは、忍耐ゲームの中で最も独特なゲームの一つであり、新しいプレイヤーによって最も誤解されているゲームの一つです。一見すると、スパイダーとクロンダイクの中間のように見えます：7つの列、初期の行に埋もれた裏向きのカード、構築するためのシーケンス。しかし実際には、スコーピオンは独自の論理を持つ独自のゲームです。同じスーツのみの構築ルール、任意の表向きのカードを有効なスーツシーケンスの継続が存在する場所に置ける異常な移動メカニズム、そして3枚のカードのストックが特徴です。
スコーピオンでは、表向きのカードはその下にある裏向きカードも一緒に移動できます。この点がスパイダーやクロンダイクと異なります。この柔軟性を活用することが重要です。
裏向きカードを表にすることが最重要です。裏向きカードが多い列のカードをどかして、下のカードへのアクセスを解放しましょう。
スコーピオンには3枚の山札があります。これは一度だけ使えます。詰まりそうになった時に温存しておくことをお勧めします。
Twelve face-down cards sit beneath the first four columns at the start of each Scorpion game. Unlike Klondike, where the face-down cards are revealed one at a time as their column tops are moved, Scorpion's face-down cards sit several layers deep and may require multiple coordinated moves to reach. The order in which you uncover them matters significantly — an early reveal in the wrong column can produce a card that has nowhere to go and that disrupts the suit sequences you were building.
Identify which columns have the most face-down cards and start there. Columns one through four each have three face-down cards; reaching the deepest one requires clearing three layers of face-up cards above it. Prioritise uncovering the deepest face-down cards first — not because the card itself is necessarily more valuable, but because clearing the layers above it produces more total information and more useful face-up cards per move sequence than clearing a shallower column.
Match uncovering sequences to suit sequence needs. Before beginning any uncovering sequence, check which suits most need their low-rank cards. If Hearts is missing its 4, 5, and 6 and those cards are plausibly buried in column two's face-down stack, uncovering column two is higher priority than uncovering a column whose face-down card is unlikely to contain Hearts low-ranks. This is imprecise information — you cannot know what the face-down cards are until revealed — but combining suit-sequence gap analysis with column uncovering priority produces better sequencing decisions than treating all face-down positions as equally urgent.
Use the Scorpion move rule to clear face-up layers without consuming empty columns. Because any face-up card can move to a valid same-suit continuation anywhere in the tableau, face-up layers above a face-down card can often be shifted to other columns without needing an empty column as a staging area. This is Scorpion's key advantage over Klondike for uncovering: in Klondike, an inaccessible card often stays buried until the stock produces the right card; in Scorpion, you can actively reorganise the tableau to reach it. Use this freedom aggressively — if a five-card face-up stack is sitting on a face-down card and three of those five cards can be redistributed to valid suit-sequence continuations elsewhere, make those moves before resorting to empty column staging.
The three reserve stock cards are Scorpion's most constrained resource — they can be spent exactly once, and once dealt they are in the game permanently. Spending them at the right moment can unlock a stuck tableau; spending them prematurely wastes the opportunity to use them when the game's critical blockage actually occurs.
Never deal the stock cards until the tableau is genuinely stuck. A genuinely stuck tableau is one where no legal move exists anywhere in the seven columns — not just no immediately productive move, but literally no legal move at all. Many Scorpion positions that feel stuck are not actually stuck: there is a legal move available, but it does not obviously improve the position. Before dealing the stock, exhaust every legal move available, including moves that seem to make the board messier temporarily. Only when every column top is checked and no legal move exists anywhere should the three stock cards be dealt.
Assess what the stock will likely produce before dealing it. The three stock cards are the three cards not dealt at the start of the game. If you have been tracking which cards are visible in the tableau and can estimate which three are missing, you can make an informed assessment of whether the stock deal will help or merely delay the inevitable. If the three missing cards are suits and ranks that can immediately continue an accessible sequence, dealing them now is correct. If they are likely to land on columns where they have no legal continuation, the stock deal may simply add three more stuck cards to an already stuck tableau — in which case studying the current tableau more carefully before dealing is the right move.
After dealing the stock, reassess the full tableau before moving. The three new cards change the tableau state completely. Before making any move after the stock deal, take fifteen seconds to scan all seven column tops with fresh eyes — the new cards may create sequence continuations that were not visible before, and the most valuable of these may not be obvious at first glance. Rushing into the first available move after the stock deal is a common way to miss the move that the stock cards were dealt to enable.
1. Never Bury a Card Under a Different Suit Without a Clear Plan to Unbury It
Cross-suit burial is Scorpion's primary loss cause. Before every move, identify the suit of the card being moved and the suit of every card that will end up beneath it at the destination. If the move buries a card of a different suit under the moved card, confirm that an accessible same-suit continuation exists for the buried suit before committing. If no plan for unburying it exists, find a different move.
2. Extend Partial Sequences in Place Before Relocating Them
A same-suit partial sequence extended by one rank is more valuable than the same sequence moved to a new column. Check whether a sequence can be extended at its current location before spending a move to relocate it. Moving a sequence costs a move and disrupts the source column; extending it costs nothing except the extension card itself.
3. Prioritise the Suit Closest to Completion
When two suit sequences can both be advanced with available moves, always advance the closer-to-complete suit first. Completing one suit early clears a column position, reduces tableau complexity, and accelerates the remaining suits' completion. The first completion is the hardest; each subsequent completion is progressively easier.
4. Use the Scorpion Move Rule to Clear Paths to Face-Down Cards
Before using an empty column as a staging area for uncovering, check whether the face-up cards above the face-down target can be redistributed to valid same-suit continuations elsewhere in the tableau. Scorpion's move rule often provides enough flexibility to clear paths to face-down cards without consuming the empty column resource.
5. Uncover the Deepest Face-Down Cards First
Columns one through four each have three face-down cards. The deepest face-down card produces the most information when revealed and the most useful face-up cards per move sequence during the uncovering process. Start uncovering from the deepest position and work outward.
6. Track Which Low-Rank Cards Each Suit Is Missing
Sequence completion stalls at the lowest missing rank. A Hearts sequence that has King through 5 accessible but cannot find the 4 is stuck until the 4 appears. Keep a running mental note of which low-rank cards each suit is missing and use this list to prioritise which face-down columns to uncover first and which face-up moves to make to expose those cards.
7. Protect Empty Columns — They Are the Scarcest Resource in the Game
An empty column in Scorpion can receive any card or partial sequence, enabling rearrangements that are otherwise impossible. Empty columns are created by completing a suit sequence (which removes 13 cards from a column) or by clearing a short column entirely. Once you have an empty column, treat it as a last-resort staging resource rather than a convenient parking spot — filling it with a card that did not need staging wastes the most powerful tool in your possession.
8. Do Not Deal the Stock Until the Tableau Has Zero Legal Moves
A position with even one legal move is not stuck. Before dealing the reserve stock, verify that every column top has been checked for valid same-suit continuations across all other column tops. Premature stock deals are permanent — you cannot unspend those three cards. The stock's value is highest when the tableau is genuinely immovable; spending it before that point reduces its value to less than its maximum.
9. After the Stock Deal, Scan All Seven Columns Before Moving
The three dealt cards change everything. Take fifteen seconds after each stock deal to re-scan the complete tableau with fresh eyes. The move the stock was meant to enable may not be the first one you see — it may be a chain of two or three moves starting from a column you had not been watching closely.
10. Resign Early on Confirmed Stuck Positions — Do Not Exhaust the Stock on a Lost Cause
Scorpion has a higher intrinsic unwinnable rate than FreeCell or Klondike Turn 1. When the stock has been dealt, all columns have been thoroughly checked, and no legal moves exist that make any suit sequence progress, the game is over. Recognising this position quickly — after one or two systematic checks rather than ten minutes of hopeful shuffling — and starting a fresh hand is the most efficient use of your time. A player who plays twenty Scorpion hands efficiently, resigning stuck positions after three minutes, wins more games per hour than one who spends thirty minutes on every stuck hand. See our solitaire win rates guide for the full context.
The most damaging Scorpion mistake is building long, visually satisfying mixed-suit stacks in the hope that the correct same-suit cards will appear to sort them out later. Mixed-suit stacks create compounding cross-suit burial problems — each card added to a mixed stack makes it harder to extract the cards of one suit without disrupting the cards of another. Every stack in Scorpion should be as suit-pure as possible; visual tidiness that comes at the cost of suit purity is a trade that almost always loses.
The second most common mistake is dealing the reserve stock cards the first time the game feels slow or unproductive. Scorpion positions often look stuck when they are merely unproductive — there are legal moves available, but none of them obviously improve the position. Developing the patience to exhaust all legal moves before dealing the stock, and the analytical habit of distinguishing genuinely stuck from merely unproductive, is the mid-level skill that produces the largest improvement beyond the basic strategy covered in this guide.
中〜上級者向けです。クロンダイクとスパイダー1スートに慣れた後のステップアップに適しています。
約35〜40%程度です。
キングからエースまでの同じスートの完全なシーケンスが完成すると自動的に除去されます。