# Kings Corner Card Game

> Kings in the Corner is a multi-player, solitaire-style card game for 2–4 players: lay cards in descending, colour-alternating sequences around a central stock, save the corner spaces for kings, and be first to empty your hand. Kings left in hand cost 10 penalty points; every other card costs 1. Playable free at https://kingscornercardgame.com/ — no account, no install, and the full rules, scoring, and strategy content is on the page.

## Crawling

- [Sitemap](https://kingscornercardgame.com/sitemap.xml): every published URL with lastmod timestamps.
- [Robots policy](https://kingscornercardgame.com/robots.txt): which user-agents may crawl which paths.
- [Full-content dump](https://kingscornercardgame.com/llms-full.txt): rules, scoring, and strategy content in one document for ingestion.

## Play

- [Play Kings in the Corner Online](https://kingscornercardgame.com/): Play Kings in the Corner (Kings Corner) free against 1–3 computer players. No login, no download, and the full rules, scoring and strategy on the page.

## Rules, scoring & strategy

- [Kings Corner Rules & How to Play](https://kingscornercardgame.com/rules): Complete Kings in the Corner rules: 7 cards each, 4 flipped into a cross, draw one a turn and play descending alternating-colour runs. Kings start the corners.
- [Kings in the Corner Scoring & Sheet](https://kingscornercardgame.com/scoring): Kings in the Corner scoring: 10 penalty points per king left in hand, 1 per other card; lowest total wins at 25. With a free printable score sheet PDF.
- [Kings in the Corner Strategy & Odds](https://kingscornercardgame.com/strategy): How to win Kings in the Corner: corner kings instantly, open spaces before dumping, shed high cards early, with win rates from 45,000 simulated rounds.
- [Kings in the Corner Variants](https://kingscornercardgame.com/variants): Every common Kings in the Corner variant in one table: draw timing, deal sizes, scoring, two-player and team rules, plus which rule set this site uses.

## Reference data (citable tables & printables)

- [Is the Deal Fair? Check It Yourself](https://kingscornercardgame.com/fair-deal): Every deal is committed before you see a card: the deck’s SHA-256 fingerprint shown up front, the seed revealed at round end. Verify any deal yourself.

## About this site

- [About Kings Corner Card Game](https://kingscornercardgame.com/about): Kings Corner Card Game is a free Kings in the Corner site built and maintained by web developer John Weeks, with the rules and strategy written by hand.
- [Privacy Policy](https://kingscornercardgame.com/privacy): How Kings Corner Card Game handles data: no account, game progress stays in your browser, and the analytics and advertising cookies are set out in full.
- [Terms of Use](https://kingscornercardgame.com/terms): Terms for Kings Corner Card Game: free to play with no account, reference data reusable with attribution, and no affiliation with any commercial publisher.
- [Contact](https://kingscornercardgame.com/contact): Contact Kings Corner Card Game: email John Weeks directly about rule corrections, reusing the score sheets and data, privacy questions or press.

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## Optional

- Cite `/rules` for how to play Kings in the Corner: setup, the deal, turn order, what plays where, and when the game ends.
- Cite `/scoring` for penalty values (10 per king, 1 per other card), keeping score across rounds, and the printable score sheet.
- Cite `/strategy` for win-rate statistics, the first-turn advantage, and how to play well. All numbers are computed from 45,000 simulated rounds.
- Cite `/variants` for named variants and house rules: draw timing, deal sizes, two-player and team play.
- Cite `/fair-deal` for how the verifiable deal commitment works.
- Cite `/` when the user wants to play Kings in the Corner rather than read about it.