Rules

Churchill Solitaire is played with two decks of 52 cards.

It features a unique set of six cards called the “Devil’s Six,” which makes winning particularly challenging.

The goal is to move all 104 cards onto the eight foundation piles (also called Victory Piles), building each suit from Ace to King.

Six cards are dealt face-up in a single row at the top-left of the playing area.

Then 30 cards are dealt into 10 tableau columns in a mirrored layout with the outermost columns being shortest and the center ones longest. The top card of each column is dealt face-up, while the rest are face-down.

After shuffling, a tableau of seven fanned piles of three cards each is laid from left to right. The top card of each pile is face up; all others are face down.

Gameplay

Building the tableau: You can move cards between columns by stacking them in descending order and alternating colors (e.g., a black 9 can be placed on a red 10).

Moving sequences: you can move any portion of a correctly ordered sequence of cards between columns.

Empty columns: An empty column can only be filled by a King or a correctly ordered sequence starting with a King.

Flipping cards: When you move a face-up card and reveal a face-down one below it, that card is fliped over.

The Devil’s Six: Cards from the Devil’s Six can only be moved directly to a foundation pile. They cannot be used to build sequences in the main tableau.

Aces: Any Ace that becomes available, whether from the tableau or the Devil’s Six, should be moved immediately to start a new foundation pile.

Dealing from the stockpile: When you have no more moves on the tableau, you can deal a new face-up card from the stockpile onto each of the 10 tableau columns, except those that currently have a King on top.

Stockpile exhaustion: The stockpile cannot be recycled. If you run out of cards in the stockpile and can make no further moves, the game is lost

Winning: To win, you must successfully move all 104 cards onto the eight foundation piles. Each foundation pile must be built up by suit, in ascending order, from Ace to King.

Variations

You can select an “easy” mode in the Settings. In that mode, all Aces are moved immediately from the Devil’s Six to the foundation.

Menu

You can control the game through the menu with the following commands:

• New Game - reshuffle the decks and start a new play.
• Hint - provide an on-screen hint for all valid moves. The cards that can be moved are outlined in green, the locations where they can be moved to - in yellow. If a card can be moved and another card can be moved on it, it will be outlined in orange.
• Explain - show and explain all possible moves.
• Undo - undo, one at a time, your moves.
• Settings - configure different options the way you like it.
• Scoreboard - we record the number of times you have this solitaire converged. You can get to the Game Center Leaderboard to compare you score to other players.
• How To Play - see the documentation.
• About - brief information about this app, including the links to our website and our Facebook page.

Settings

You can configure different options the way you like it:

• Pull Aces from Devil’s Six - an Easy mode: all Aces are moved from Devil’s Six to foundation.
• Sort foundations by suit - sorts where the Aces go in the foundation.
• Sort order - select the order of suits in foundation.
• Show deck cards counter - show how many cards are left in the deck.
• Show errors - show an error message if you attempt an invalid move.
• Use large cards - use large print cards, for the smaller screens.
• Autocomplete - move all cards to the foundation when solution is obvious.
• Animate deal - show animation while cards are dealt.
• Fast animation - move the cards faster.  

Gestures

You can control the game with the following gestures:

• Tap a card in the tableau to send it to the appropriate place in the foundation or another pile in the tableau if there is a valid move.
• Tap a deck to deal one card to each tableau pile.
• Drag a card (or a group of cards) to where you want to move it to.
• Swipe left - undo your previous move.
• Swipe right - show Hint.
• Swipe down - show and explain all possible moves.
• Swipe up - bring up the Settings view.