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How to Play SolitaireFour Parts: Setting Solitaire Up Playing the Game Trying Variations of Solitaire Solitaire Help

Solitaire is a one-player game that can be played on a computer or withstandard 52 playing cards. Sometimes the games are impossible to solve, butthat's all part of the fun and also explains why the alternative name for thisgame is "Patience". The first two sections of this article cover a basic andwell-known approach to playing Solitaire. The last section covers how to playthe top variations of the game.

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Understand the object of the game. It is to create four piles of cards - one persuit - in ascending order (beginning with Ace and ending with King.

Start building the layout. Put down one card face up and lay six cards face downnext to it. Then, put one card face up on top (but lowered slightly) of the first face

down card, then put a face down card on top of the other five cards. Continue doing this,so that each pile has one face up card on top and so that the left pile has one card, thenext has two, then three, four, five, six, and finally seven.[1]

Put the remaining cards in a separate pile and set it either above or below thepiles. This pile is where you will go to get more cards if you run out of moves.

Leave room at the top for four piles of cards.

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1 Look at the cards on the table that are face up. If there are any aces, placethem above the seven piles. If there are no aces, rearrange the cards you have,moving only the face up cards. When you place a card on top (slightly lower so that youcan still see both cards), it must be a different color than the card you are placing it ontop of and have a value of one less. Thus, if you have a six of hearts, you can either

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Part 2 of 3: Playing the Game

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place a five of spades or a five of clubs on top.[2]

Keep placing the cards on top of each other until you cannot move anymore.Each pile should be alternating in color and move in descending order.

Keep the top card obvious. The card on top of each of the seven piles should beface up. If you move a card, remember to turn the card underneath it over.

Build your piles using aces as foundations. If you have an ace above yourcards, (eventually you should have all four aces there), you may move cards of the

place cards of the corresponding suit on top of the pile in ascending (A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9, 10, J, Q, K) order.

Use the reserve deck if you run out of moves to make. Flip over the top threecards, and see if the top one can be placed anywhere. Much of the time, there will

an ace in there! If you put down the top card, see if you can put down the next. If you putdown the second card, see if you can put down the last card. Then, if you put down thelast card, put down another three cards from the reserve deck. If you cannot make amove with any of these cards, put them in a separate waste stack (taking care not todisturb the order). Repeat until your reserve deck has run out.

Once your reserve deck runs out, use the waste stack. However, make sure thatyou do not shuffle it!

If you have a card that's hidden, you can move cards around until you findplaces that you can hold and grab the desired card and, eventually, put it in

the desired slot.

If you use all the cards in one of the seven piles, you may place a king (butonly a king) in the empty space.

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Try playing Forty Thieves solitaire. This version is easier than normal solitairebecause you can see the cards in each pile (since they are all face up. The object

is still to make a stack for each suit in descending order.When laying out the cards, deal 10 rows of cards with four cards in each pile, allface up.You can only move the top card of each row at a time. There are four spacesabove the rows that can be used as holding cells. You can put the top card ofone of the rows into a holding cell so that you can get at one of the cards belowit.Play the cards in the reserve deck at the same time, but you can only flip oneover (not three at a time.)

Try playing Freecell solitaire. This is one of the hardest versions of solitaire. It

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challenges your skill and mental power more than regular solitaire does because there isno reserve deck to work with. The object is still to make a stack for each suit indescending order.[3]

Deal out all of the cards into eight piles--four of the piles should have sevencards in them, and four of the piles should have six cards in them. All of thecards should be face up.Do not use any cards for a reserve deck. All of the cards should be dealt outinto the piles.Like Forty Thieves, there are four spaces placed above the rows that are usedas reserve spaces. You can only play the top card of each pile, but you canplace the top card into one of the reserve spaces so that you can play a cardbeneath it.

Try playing Golf solitaire. This is a variation of solitaire where the object is to playall of the cards placed face up in the seven piles, rather than create four suit

stacks.

Deal out seven piles with five cards in each. All of the cards should be face up.All of the other cards should be placed face down in the reserve deck.Flip over the top card of the reserve deck. You will then try to play any of theface up cards from the seven piles on the card you have flipped from thereserve deck. When you cannot play any more cards, flip the next reserve deckcard over and play any face up cards you can off of this new card. Continueplaying until you have either played all of the face up cards or you cannot makeany more moves.

Try playing Pyramid solitaire. The object of the game is to remove all of thecards in the pyramid and reserve pile and place them in the discard pile by creating

pairs that equal 13 in point value.[4]

Deal out 28 cards into the shape of a pyramid, face up. It should be stacked sothat the rows are made of one card, then two cards, then three cards, etc. untilall 28 cards have been placed in the pyramid. Each row should overlap the rowabove it. Note that some people play that you only use 21 cards to make thepyramid.Create a reserve pile with the left over cards.Remove cards one at a time or in pairs. You can only remove cards that have avalue of 13. Kings are 13 points, queens 12, jacks 11 and the rest of the cardsrepresent their face values (aces are 1.) For example, you could remove a king;you could also remove an 8 and 5, because they add up to 13. The top card ofthe reserve deck can also be used to make 13.If no cards can be made into pairs, the next reserve card is flipped over. Onceall of the reserve cards have run out, you can take them from the discard pileand return them to the reserve pile so you can keep removing cards from thepyramid.

Try playing Spider solitaire. You must use two decks to play spider solitaire.[5]

Make 10 piles, four piles should have six cards each, and six piles should havefive cards each. Only the top card of each pile should be facing up. The rest ofthe cards are placed in the reserve deck.The goal is to creating descending card sequences of the same suit from Kingto Ace within the 10 piles. Once you have completed one descending pile, youcan place it in one of the eight foundation squares. You must make adescending order stack eight times. You cannot use the foundation squares asholding spaces for cards.You can create mini stacks (such as 9, 8, 7 of spades) and place them on a 10of hearts or any other suit while you make other small stacks.


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The game ends when all eight foundation squares are filled.

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There are more types of Solitaire, such as suits and four aces. If youare having trouble with this one, or just not getting into it, try one ofthese.Remember that to win Solitaire, a certain amount of luck is involved.If you need help or want a hint and are on a computer, press the H key.Always start with the deck if you don't have any aces in your hand ofcards.

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