Rules
Flower Garden Solitaire is played with one deck of 52 cards.
Thirty-six cards are dealt into six columns, each containing six cards. The columns are called the “flower beds” and the entire tableau is sometimes called “the garden.” The sixteen leftover cards become the reserve, or “the bouquet.”
The top cards of each flower-bed and all of the cards in the bouquet are available for play. Cards can only be moved one at a time and can be built either on the foundations or on the other flower beds. The foundations are built up by suit, from Ace to King. The cards in the garden, on the other hand, can be built down regardless of suit and any empty flower bed can be filled with any card. The cards in the bouquet can be used to aid in building, be put into the foundations, or fill an empty flower bed.
The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.
Variants
Wildflower Solitaire - a same-suit descending sequence may be moved as a unit in the tableau.
Relaxed version of each - same rules, but there are seven tableau piles with five cards each, and seventeen card reserve.
Variants
- Flower Garden (relaxed) — Seven tableau piles with five cards each.
- Wildflower
- Wildflower (relaxed)