Again, there are hundreds of variations and honestly people form their own house rules of how to play. There is another version of solitaire called Canfield that allows you to reuse the stock pile, but does not allow you to reshuffle.ģ. There are other versions of solitaire that allow you to reshuffle and reuse the waste pile.Ģ. The official rules of Klondike are that you only go through the stock pile once and the game is over if you can’t make anymore moves and have exhausted the stock pile and top card of the waste pile. If the up-card cannot be used, the one, two, or three cards of the group are placed face up on the waste pile, and the next group of three cards is turned up.ġ. If a card is used in this manner, the card below it becomes available for play. The player turns up cards from the top of the stock in groups of three, and the top card of the three may be used for building on the piles, if possible, played on a foundation. Only a king may fill an open space in the layout. When there is no face-up card left on a pile, the top face-down card is turned up and becomes available. If more than one card is face up on a tableau pile, all such cards must be moved as a unit. Example: A black five may be played on a red six. Cards in the appropriate suit are then played on the aces in sequence - the two, then the three, and so on - as they become available.Īny movable card may be placed on a card next-higher in rank if it is of opposite color. As it becomes available, each ace must be played to a row above the piles. The top card of each pile is face up all others are face down.
The Dealĭeal out 28 cards in seven piles as follows: The first pile is one card the second pile has two cards, and so on up to seven in the last pile. The goal is to get the four suits built onto the foundations from aces up through kings.