Aces Up Solitaire Rules

(Non-Builders games type; 1 deck (52 cards); no redeal)

• Game time: Quick

• Difficulty level: Easy

• Skill level: Moderate

• Chance of winning: Medium; about 1 in 8; 12.5%

Object of the game: To move all the cards to the foundation except the four Aces.

Foundation
(1 pile)

• All discarded cards are played to this pile.

Tableau
(4 columns)

• Discard the lower–ranking card(s) of two or more cards of the same suit in the four exposed cards across the columns.

• Ace counts higher than King, values running A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Aces are not discarded.

• Keep discarding until the top cards are all of different suits, then deal the next four cards.

• No building on the tableau.

• Spaces may be filled with any available card.

• The game is won if only the four Aces remain in the tableau, one Ace in each column, and the remaining forty-eight lower–ranking cards having been discarded.

Stock

• Click once on the stock to deal a new row of cards to the tableau.

• There is no redeal.

Scoring

• Aces Up starts at –32 points because the four Aces are not discarded from the layout at the end of the game: (4 cards x 5 points) = 20 points; –52 + 20 = –32 points

• The final score is 208, like any other one deck games.