If you can accomplish this within the rules, you win! The goal of Solitaire is to stack all the cards in their four foundations (piles), one for each suit, in order, from Ace up to King. Place the remaining cards in a pile at the top of the field. Continue, turning one more card face up each time until there is an ascending order of stacked up cards, each with a face up card atop. Place a single, face up card on top of the second pile, and then place a second row of face down cards on top of the others to the end of the field. Place six more cards in a horizontal line, face down. (Refer to the diagram) Place a single card face up on the left hand side of the field. It requires a standard 52-card deck of cards (no jokers). All four Kings will be at the top of the foundations.Klondike solitaire is a basic patience game that is simple to set up, simple to play, but difficult to win. All cards must be face up in the suit piles to win. The goal of Classic Solitaire is to build all the cards on to the foundations at the top of the game screen. There is not a limit to the number of times you can deal out the cards. Once you have dealt out all the cards, you can reset the stock pile. You can deal cards one at a time face up.
When there are on more face down cards in a pile and you move the face up card, you can fill the space with an available King.Īfter dealing, the Stock Pile is what remains of the deck after the cards forming the Tableau. Every time you move a face up card, you turn up the card beneath it. To turn a card face up, it must become the bottom card in the column, so all the cards below the face down card must be moved into a different column. In order to move a card in a column, it must be turned face up. On the tableau you can build on the face up cards, building down in alternating colors. Move any cards you can to the foundations. Each foundation must be built up by suit and sequence from Ace to the King. You are attempting to move cards from the columns into the foundations on the top right of the game screen. They are the primary play area of the game. The columns in a game of Classic Solitaire are the tableau. The remaining 24 cards are placed in the top left of the game screen as a stock pile you can draw from when you need additional cards. Each time an Ace appears face up, place it in a row at the top. Continue in this fashion, dealing one less card each time, until you have seven piles that start on the left with one card and increase by one card with each column from left to right. Next, deal a card face up on the second pile, then one more in each pile facing down. Seven cards are dealt in a row-one card face up, then six more continuing to the right face down. The game begins with 28 cards dealt into columns. You move cards between columns in an attempt to put them in order into 4 piles of cards separated by suit. If you did not realize there is more than one type of solitaire game, the game you know as Solitaire is likely to be Klondike.Ĭlassic Solitaire is a game of sorting cards. Klondike is by far the most popular version of Solitaire, though there are many variations. Classic solitaire (also known as Klondike Solitaire) is the game that many simply refer to as "solitaire".