About Solitaire

Solitaire (Klondike) is a single-player card game in which you move 52 cards by the rules to build all four suits from Ace to King. Uncovering face-down cards is part deduction, and deciding when to cycle the stock is part management. Undo is available, so feel free to experiment.

How to play

1. In the seven lower columns (the tableau) you build down in alternating colors (for example a red 6 on a black 7). Drag a run of face-up cards to move it as a unit.
2. Only a King (with any cards on top of it) can be placed in an empty column.
3. The four piles at the top right (foundations) are built up by suit: Ace, 2, 3, … King. Fill them all to win.
4. Tap the stock pile at the top left to flip one card onto the waste pile. When the stock is empty, tap it again to recycle the waste back into the stock, which costs 50 points.
5. Tap a card to send it automatically to where it can go (foundations first). Undo reverses mistakes, and an Auto-finish button appears once every remaining card is face up.
6. Scoring: +10 to a foundation, +5 waste to a column, +5 for revealing a face-down card, -15 for moving a card from a foundation back to a column. A game in progress is saved and your best score is stored on this device.

Tips

• Start with the columns that hide the most face-down cards; it opens up your options fastest.
• Move Aces and 2s to the foundations early, but do not let the foundations run too far ahead or you will run short of cards to build on.
• An empty column is a spot for a King. If you have no King to place, do not rush to empty a column.
• Before you cycle the stock again, check that no more moves are available; each full pass costs points.