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What is Solitaire?

Welcome to the world of Solitaire.

Historically, the term 'solitaire' refers to any card game played by a single player.

Solitaire , or Klondike, is a game that requires 1 player and a standard 52 deck of playing cards. The objective of Solitaire is to organize a shuffled deck of cards into 4 stacks (one for each suit) in ascending order (Ace to King).

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Card game rules

Set up

In Solitaire, there are 4 types of piles: The Tableau, The Stock, The Talon, and The Foundations.

- The Tableau: The Tableau consists of 7 piles. The first pile has 1 card. The second pile has 2 cards. The third pile has 3 cards and so on until there are 7 piles. Only the top card in each pile is faced up.

The Stock: The remaining cards after building the Tableau are called the Stock

The Talon: The Talon is a pile of 3 cards from the Stock. In the Talon, only the top card is faced up.

The Foundations: The Foundations consist of 4 stacks of cards (one for each suit) in ascending order (Ace to King). At the beginning of the game, The Foundations is empty.

How to play

Within the Tableau, faced up cards are transferred in descending order (King to Ace) and in alternating color. The player may transfer the top card or stack of faced up cards to any of the piles in an attempt to create the sequence of descending value and alternating color. An empty spot in the Tableau may be filled with a king. If the player cannot move any cards within the Tableau, 3 cards are selected from the top of the Stockpile to form the Talon. If the first card in the Talon cannot be played, 3 more cards are selected from the Stock. When and if the Stock runs out, the Talon is reshuffled to form a new Stock and the process continues.

While the player is sequencing the Tableau, the player is also trying to build up the Foundations stacks. The top card from the Talon or the Tableau stacks may be transferred to the Foundations. When all cards have been transferred in ascending order (Ace to King) to the Foundations, the game is won. If no more moves can be made and the Foundations is incomplete, the game is lost.

Variations

Spider Solitaire, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Two suited spider solitaire… are variations of Solitaire card games.

Spider

Spider is a much more difficult version of traditional Solitaire. In Spider, there are two decks of cards in play, 10 Tableau piles, no Foundations piles, and no Talon pile. The objective in Spider is to sequence 13 cards of the same suit in descending order (King to Ace) within a Tableau pile. When 13 cards are sequenced, the cards are removed. If no moves can be made within the tableau piles, one card from the Stock piles is given to each Tableau pile. The game is won when there are no more cards.

FreeCell

Invented in the 1980s as a computer application by Paul Allfile, FreeCell is a very winnable Solitaire game. FreeCell starts with 52 playing cards dealt to 8 Tableau piles. The first 4 piles have 7 cards each while the last 4 piles have 6 cards each. All cards are faced up. Instead of Stock and Talon piles, there are 4 empty storage piles. The player may place any one card in each pile at their own strategic discretion. The player may only move one card at a time in FreeCell, causing many games to last longer than expected. The sequencing objective of the Tableau and the Foundations remains similar to traditional Solitaire.

Forty Thieves

Forty Thieves, or Napoleon at St. Helena, is similar to basic Solitaire but, it doubles the number of cards. There are 10 Tableau piles with initially 4 cards in each pile (making up the forty thieves). The Tableau is built upon a descending sequence (King to Ace) of the same suit, instead of alternating color. Any card may fill an empty space. There are 8 Foundations and, like basic Solitaire, the game is won when all cards are transferred to the Foundations in ascending order in separated suits.

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