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 to the waste with only a single pass through the deck.
- Turning one card at a time to the waste, with no limit on passes through the deck.
- Turning three cards at once to the waste, with three passes through the deck.
- Turning three cards at once to the waste, with no limit on passes through the deck.
If the player can no longer make any meaningful moves, the game is considered lost.
