Rules

Klondike Solitaire is played with one deck of 52 cards.

After shuffling, a tableau of seven fanned piles of cards is laid from left to right. The first pile is one card; the second pile has two cards, and so on up to seven in the last pile. The top card of each pile is face up; all others are face down.

The remaining cards form the stock are placed facedown at the upper left of the screen. The four foundations (light rectangles in the upper right of the screen) are built up by suit from Ace to King, and the tableau piles can be built down by alternate colors. Every face-up card in a partial pile, or a complete pile, can be moved, as a unit, to another tableau pile on the basis of its highest card. Any empty piles can be filled with a King, or a pile of cards with a King.

When there is no face-up card left on a pile, the top face-down card is turned up and becomes available.

The aim of the game is to build up four stacks of cards starting with Ace and ending with King, all of the same suit, on one of the four foundations, at which time the player would have won.

There are following ways of dealing the remainder of the deck from the stock to the waste, selectable from the Settings view:

• Turning one card at a time.
• Turning three cards at once.

If the player can no longer make any meaningful moves, the game is considered lost.

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.
• 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 your 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.

Gestures

You can control the game with the following gestures:

• Tap a card in the tableau or on top of the wastepile to send it to the appropriate place in the foundation or another pile in the tableau if there is a valid move.
• Drag a card (or a group of cards) to where you want to move it to.
• Swipe right - show Hint.
• Swipe down or Long Press - show and explain all possible moves.
• Swipe up - bring up the Settings view.

Settings

You can configure different options the way you like it:

• Deal - select Draw 1 or Draw 3.
• Scoring - select Standard or Vegas.
• Vegas score: - you can reset your cumulative Vegas score at any time.
• Deck on left - show the deck on the left side of the screen.
• Show score - show the score during the game.
• Show timer - show the timer during the game.
• Show bonus - in Standard scoring, show the time bonus you can get if comlete the game.
• 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.
• Fast animation - move the cards faster.

Standard Scoring

In Standard scoring, you get points:

• +5 - move a card from the waste pile to a tableau pile
• +5 - turn over a face-down card in the tableau
• +10 - move a card from the waste pile to a foundation
• +10 - move a card from a tableau pile to a foundation
• -15 - move a card from a foundation to a tableau pile
• -100 - cycle through the deck (Draw 1) (after the first pass)
• -20 - cycle through the deck (Draw 3) (after four passes)

Timed bonuses and penalties

• Time penalty: 2 points are deducted for every 10 seconds of play.
• Winning bonus: If you win the game, bonus points are awarded based on your finish time: 700,000 ÷ seconds to finish added to your final score.

Vegas scoring

• Deck passes: you can only go through the deck once in Draw 1 mode, and three times in Draw 3 mode.
• Wager: you wage $52 by starting each game, which represents $1 for each card in the deck.
• Earning points: You earn $5 for every card you move to a foundation pile.
• No bonus: There is no bonus for winning or penalty for time elapsed.
• Cumulative scoring: the score is kept as a cumulative total across multiple games.