Rules

Pyramid Solitaire is played with one deck of 52 cards.

A pyramid of 28 cards is dealt in 7 overlapping rows.

The remaining cards form the stock are placed facedown at the bottom right of the screen.

To play, pairs of uncovered cards can be removed to the foundation if their values total 13. Thus, kings can be removed immediately to the foundation. In order to be removed, cards must not be covered, so when an Ace rests on a Queen, that Queen can not be removed. Discarded cards are removed from play and cannot be re-matched with other cards.

You may draw cards from the stock one at a time and match them with any exposed card. If no match is made, the drawn stock card is played into a waste pile. The top card of the waste pile can be matched at any time with the next card drawn from the stock, or any uncovered card in the pyramid. Once the stock is exhausted, the waste pile can be turned over and dealt as a new stock twice.

To be considered won, all cards from the pyramid must be moved to the foundation.

Variations

Tut’s Tomb (also called King Tut): Dealing three cards at a time from the stock, repeating until no matches can be made; placing all cards totalling 13 in a foundation. The King of Spades is laid down first, and represents King Tutankhamun atop a pyramid. There is no limit on number of times the waste pile can be recycled.

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 pairs of matching cards are outlined in green (low card) and yellow (high card).
• 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:

• Mode - select Pyramid (draw one) or Tut’s Tomb (draw three).
• Deck on left - show the deck on the left side of the screen.
• Show errors - show an error message if you attempt an invalid move.
• Use large cards - use large print cards, for the smaller screens.
• Fast animation - move the cards faster.  

Gestures

You can control the game with the following gestures:

• Tap a card in the tableau or on top of the wastepile or stock to match it with another card and move them to the foundation. If more than one card can be matched, the tapped card is outlined in red, and you can tap the matching card that you would like to play to foundation.
• Drag a card onto a matching card to discard both of them.
• Long press - pause the game.
• 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.