Klondike Solitaire - Cards

Klondike Solitaire, one card at a time

Twenty-eight cards go out into seven columns, one face up at the head of each. The other twenty-four wait in the stock, and that pile is really the whole game. Turn it one card at a time and everything comes around eventually. Turn three at a time and two cards out of every three stay just out of reach until the order shifts. You choose before the first move, and that choice decides how the deal will feel.

The four foundations are what you are actually playing for. Each one opens on an ace and climbs to a king in a single suit. Everything else exists to feed them: the red-on-black runs you assemble in the columns, the face-down cards you dig out one by one, the empty space you try to keep clear for a king.

What is in the app

- Draw one and draw three, picked at the start of every game

- Undo going back a hundred moves, so one careless turn never ends a deal

- A hint when a column has gone quiet

- Times, streaks and win rate kept separately for each draw mode

- Card backs and table colours you can change mid-game

- Nothing to sign up for, no connection needed, 33 languages

The rules in short: build down in alternating colours, move a run onto a card one rank higher of the opposite colour, put a king in an empty column, and send aces up as soon as they surface. When nothing moves, turn the stock over and go around again.

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