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each suit by rank from low to high (A-2-3-4-5-6- 7-8-9-10-J-Q-K).
Each pile must contain all thirteen cards of its appropriate suit. More often than not, you end up swallowing the bitter pill of defeat, having exhausted all moving and building options and turning up your final stock cards.
HOW TO PLAY Klondike, like most Solitaire games, has five distinct “plays” or moves: building cards within the tableau (your original seven piles); promoting an exposed ace above the board to start a new foundation pile; removing cards from the main board to an appropriate (suited) ace foundation above the board; moving kings to occupy any vacant slots in your original seven piles; and, when all else fails, drawing a card from your stock pile. Each play is described below.
BUILDING Once all cards are dealt, start by moving one card onto another that is higher in rank and of the opposite color. This is called building . In the tableau below, for example, you may build 10 of spades on J of hearts. You may not build Q of diamonds on K of hearts (they’re both red) or 6 of spades on 7 of clubs (they’re both black).
Any time you expose a face-down card, turn it up. In the example below, after building 10 of spades on J of hearts, there was a face-down card below 10 of spades, the Q of clubs. You may build that Q of clubs on K of hearts, and then build the existing J of hearts-10 of spades set on top of that! All face-up cards on a pile may be moved as a single unit, as long as the suit-matching and ranking rules are followed.
FOUNDATIONS In Klondike and most other Solitaire games, when you encounter an exposed ace, you move it to a new row above the original tableau (see illustration below). This allows you to begin building the four piles, or foundations, that you need to win the game. Keep in mind there is no requirement to immediately promote an exposed ace—sometimes it makes sense to wait a turn a two before promoting an ace.
BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATIONS Once you create an ace foundation, start building cards of the same suit in
ascending
order. This is how you win (or more often lose!) a game of Klondike. So in the example above, you may build 2 of diamonds and then 3 of diamonds onto A of diamonds. Just remember that once you move an ace up or start building on an ace foundation, you may not reuse or replay these cards. Once played to the foundations, a card stays on the foundations.
FILING VACANT TABLEAU SLOTS When one of your original tableau piles is vacant (typically because you have built its cards onto other tableau piles or tothe foundations), you are allowed to move any king into the vacant slot. As with promoting aces, there is no requirement to immediately move a king into an empty slot. Do so at your leisure. However, if a king has cards already built on it, you must move the entire pile of cards as a single unit to the new slot.
USING YOUR STOCK PILE Any time you cannot move or build cards on the tableau, expose the top card of your stock pile. If the card can be played anywhere on the tableau, do so immediately, like so:
If the card cannot be played, you must toss it into a separate garbage pile. In Klondike and most other Solitaire games, you are allowed to play the topmost “garbage” card at any time.
Continue turning up cards from your stock pile, one at a time, as needed. But remember: You may shuffle through the stock pile only once. That’s the official rule, despite protestations from loosey-goosey Solitaire players who claim it’s OK to shuffle the garbage pile when your stock pile is exhausted.
The game ends when you build all cards from the tableau to the appropriate ace foundations, or, more likely, you exhaust the stock pile and run out of moves.
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VARIATION 1: DOUBLE KLONDIKE
This is a superb two-deck variant (hence the “double” in the title) of the standard Solitaire game, with plenty of scope for skill. Like the standard game, Double Klondike is not easy to win.
Each pile must contain all thirteen cards of its appropriate suit. More often than not, you end up swallowing the bitter pill of defeat, having exhausted all moving and building options and turning up your final stock cards.
HOW TO PLAY Klondike, like most Solitaire games, has five distinct “plays” or moves: building cards within the tableau (your original seven piles); promoting an exposed ace above the board to start a new foundation pile; removing cards from the main board to an appropriate (suited) ace foundation above the board; moving kings to occupy any vacant slots in your original seven piles; and, when all else fails, drawing a card from your stock pile. Each play is described below.
BUILDING Once all cards are dealt, start by moving one card onto another that is higher in rank and of the opposite color. This is called building . In the tableau below, for example, you may build 10 of spades on J of hearts. You may not build Q of diamonds on K of hearts (they’re both red) or 6 of spades on 7 of clubs (they’re both black).
Any time you expose a face-down card, turn it up. In the example below, after building 10 of spades on J of hearts, there was a face-down card below 10 of spades, the Q of clubs. You may build that Q of clubs on K of hearts, and then build the existing J of hearts-10 of spades set on top of that! All face-up cards on a pile may be moved as a single unit, as long as the suit-matching and ranking rules are followed.
FOUNDATIONS In Klondike and most other Solitaire games, when you encounter an exposed ace, you move it to a new row above the original tableau (see illustration below). This allows you to begin building the four piles, or foundations, that you need to win the game. Keep in mind there is no requirement to immediately promote an exposed ace—sometimes it makes sense to wait a turn a two before promoting an ace.
BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATIONS Once you create an ace foundation, start building cards of the same suit in
ascending
order. This is how you win (or more often lose!) a game of Klondike. So in the example above, you may build 2 of diamonds and then 3 of diamonds onto A of diamonds. Just remember that once you move an ace up or start building on an ace foundation, you may not reuse or replay these cards. Once played to the foundations, a card stays on the foundations.
FILING VACANT TABLEAU SLOTS When one of your original tableau piles is vacant (typically because you have built its cards onto other tableau piles or tothe foundations), you are allowed to move any king into the vacant slot. As with promoting aces, there is no requirement to immediately move a king into an empty slot. Do so at your leisure. However, if a king has cards already built on it, you must move the entire pile of cards as a single unit to the new slot.
USING YOUR STOCK PILE Any time you cannot move or build cards on the tableau, expose the top card of your stock pile. If the card can be played anywhere on the tableau, do so immediately, like so:
If the card cannot be played, you must toss it into a separate garbage pile. In Klondike and most other Solitaire games, you are allowed to play the topmost “garbage” card at any time.
Continue turning up cards from your stock pile, one at a time, as needed. But remember: You may shuffle through the stock pile only once. That’s the official rule, despite protestations from loosey-goosey Solitaire players who claim it’s OK to shuffle the garbage pile when your stock pile is exhausted.
The game ends when you build all cards from the tableau to the appropriate ace foundations, or, more likely, you exhaust the stock pile and run out of moves.
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VARIATION 1: DOUBLE KLONDIKE
This is a superb two-deck variant (hence the “double” in the title) of the standard Solitaire game, with plenty of scope for skill. Like the standard game, Double Klondike is not easy to win.
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