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How to play Klondike solitaire card game?

Author: Mauro Feliz
by Mauro Feliz
Posted: Feb 18, 2022

Klondike, also known as Canfield, is a one-player card game that is the most well-known and popular version of the patience or solitaire family. It has spawned numerous variants, including Batsford, Easthaven, King Albert, Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk, and Whitehead, as well as Agnes and Westcliff in the United States. The triangular layout of the tableau, building in ascending sequence and packing in descending order, distinguishes all variants.

How to play Klondike solitaire game?Klondike solitaire is played with a standard 52-card deck that does not include Jokers. Following the shuffle, a tableau of seven fanned piles of cards is laid out from left to right. Each pile has one more card than the one before it, from left to right. The first and left-most pile contains a single upturned card, the second pile contains two cards (one downturned and one upturned), the third pile contains three cards (two downturned and one upturned), and so on until the seventh pile contains seven cards (six downturned, one upturned). Each pile's top card is turned face up. The remaining cards serve as stock and are arranged facedown in the upper left corner of the layout.

The four foundations (light rectangles in the upper right of the figure) are built up by suit from Ace to King, and the tableau piles can be built down by alternate colours. Every face-up card in a partial or complete tableau pile can be moved as a unit to another tableau pile based on its highest card. Any empty pile, or a pile of cards, can be filled with a King. The goal of the game is to build four stacks of cards, starting with an Ace and ending with a King, all of the same suit, on one of the four foundations, at which point the player wins. There are several methods for transferring the remainder of the deck from stock to waste, including the following:

Turning three cards to waste at once, with no limit on the number of passes through the deck.With three passes through the deck, discarding three cards at once.With three passes through the deck, one card at a time is discarded.Turning one card at a time to waste with only one pass through the deck, and then playing it if possible.Turning one card at a time to the waste, with no limit on how many times the deck can be turned over.The game is considered lost when the player is unable to make any meaningful moves. At this point, victory is out of the question.

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Author: Mauro Feliz

Mauro Feliz

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