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What is solitaire and how do you play it?

Solitaire (Klondike) is a card game for one player, played with a 52-card deck. The cards are dealt into seven columns, and the goal is to move them all to four piles, one per suit, from ace to king. In the columns, cards go down in order with alternating colors. Here you play free, drawing one or three cards.

How to play

1. The table starts with seven columns. The first has one card, the second has two, and so on up to seven. Only the top card of each column is face up.
2. The remaining cards sit face down in the stock, in the top corner. The waste pile is next to it.
3. The goal is to move every card to the four foundations at the top of the table. Each foundation takes one suit in order: ace, 2, 3 and so on up to the king.
4. In the columns, you stack cards in descending order with alternating colors. A pink 6 goes on a black 7, and a black jack goes on a pink queen.
5. You can move a face-up card alone or together with all the cards on top of it.
6. When a face-down card ends up on top of a column, it turns face up.
7. An empty column only takes a king, alone or with its sequence.
8. No move on the table? Tap the stock to turn cards onto the waste pile. The top waste card can go to a column or to a foundation.
9. When the stock runs out, tap its empty spot: the waste pile becomes the stock again, in the same order. You can go through the stock as many times as you like.
10. The top card of a foundation can go back to a column if it fits. Drag the card to do that.
11. You win when all four foundations reach the king.

How to move the cards

• Tap a card: it goes to a foundation if it can. If not, it goes to the first column where it fits.
• Drag the card with your finger or the mouse to pick the destination yourself. The cards on top come along.
• Use Undo move as many times as you need. You can go all the way back to the start of the game.
• The light bulb button highlights a possible move.
• When every card in the columns is face up, the game sends the rest to the foundations by itself.

Draw 1 or draw 3

In Draw 1, each tap on the stock turns one card. Every stock card is within reach, so the game is lighter.

In Draw 3, each tap turns three cards and only the top one can be played. Once you use that card, the one below becomes available. This is the traditional mode and the harder one.

Tips to play better

• Before turning the stock, check for moves between the columns.
• Prefer moves that reveal face-down cards, starting with the tallest columns.
• Do not empty a column unless a king is ready to take the spot.
• Send aces and 2s to the foundations as soon as they show up. They do nothing useful in the columns.
• Be careful about sending higher cards up too early: sometimes you need them in the columns to hold another card.
• In Draw 3, playing a waste card changes which cards show up on the next pass through the stock. Use that to reach a buried card.

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