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Rules of Solitaire

Rules of some of the most popular solitaires: Spider, FreeCell, Klondike, Pyramid, Canfield, Golf, and others.

 

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Whitehead Solitaire Rules

(Klondike type; 1 deck (52 cards); no redeal)

  • Game time: Medium

  • Difficulty level: Easy

  • Skill level: Moderate

  • Chance of winning: Medium; about 1 in 5; 20%

Object of the game: To move all the cards to the foundations.

Solitaire Rules

 

Foundations
(4 piles: complete these piles to win the game)

  • Build up in suit from Ace to King (for example, a 2 can only be played on an Ace).

Tableau
(a row of 8 cards below the foundations)

  • Build down by the same color (red on red, black on black regardless of suit). For example, a 10 can be played on a Jack or on a Jack.

  • The top card of each column is available for play to another tableau column or to the foundations.

  • Cards of the same suit and in a descending sequence may be moved as a unit, in whole or in part, to another pile (groups of cards not of the same suit cannot be moved).

  • Spaces may be filled with any available card or packed sequence.

Stock

  • Turn up one card at a time from the stock to the waste by clicking.

  • There is no redeal.

Waste
(1 pile)

  • The top card is available for play to the foundations or to the tableau.

 
Spider

Spider is one of the most popular two-decks solitaire card games. The game is said to have been a particular favourite of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

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FreeCell

FreeCell is one of the most popular one-deck solitaire card games. The popularity of the game grew thanks to Jim Horne that wrote one first alphanumeric version for the DOS and a second one for Windows.

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