Solitarie card game rules

When you are playing three card flip, and you get to the bottom of the pile, and there are only two cards left to flip over. Do you play with just the two? Or do you turn them over and start with the full pile and flip three over? We had somewhat of a disagreement between two players yesterday and we did not find anything about what the proper procedure would be.

Hi James, I think there is some confusion caused by the article above. When using the 3-card flip, there will only ever be three cards out at a time.

The only time you would flip less than 3 cards is when your stockpile is nearly empty and you do not have more than 3 cards to flip. Flip the first card atop the stockpile over so that it is face up on the table. Deal another six cards, this time face down, in line with the first card that was flipped over. This creates the seven column tableau necessary to play. From there deal one card face up on the remaining columns, one by one so that the first column consist of one card face up and the last column has six cards face down and one card face up.

Use the image below for reference as to how the initial setup should look. There are two acceptable ways of dealing cards from the stockpile. Foundation: This is where the cards from the tableau are stacked. This will become clearer below. Before you start the game, most games will present you with a menu that allows you to choose whether you want to draw 1 or 3 cards.

These instructions are about drawing 1 card because this is the option for beginners. The aim is to move all the playing cards from the tableau to the 4 foundations, arranged from Ace to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, all the way to King, sorted by suit, creating 4 separate stacks of spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts. The Solitaire game has started and we will first focus on the tableau.

As we already know, we have to try to move all the cards to the foundation, where each stack has to start with an Ace. So, first we'll look for the Aces.

As you can see in figure 1. The card below this Ace is turned over automatically. Once we can't find any more Aces, we sort the cards in the right sequence in order to turn more cards face up while we play. According to the rules of Klondike Solitaire, the cards on the tableau can only be sorted in alternating colors, putting each card on another card with a value that is one point higher.

Eight Off The FreeCell variation. Cruel The popular game. Yukon Move groups of cards. Scorpion Play the Spider variant. Canfield Play the demon game. Baker's Dozen Play the 1 deck strategy game. Busy Aces Play the simple Forty Thieves variant.

Gaps Arrange four rows of cards. Forty Thieves Play the classic 2 deck game. Double Klondike Play the 2 deck Klondike game.

Spiderette Play the 1 deck Spider variation. Aces Up Remove lower ranked cards. Beleaguered Castle Play the open strategy game. EastHaven Play the classic one deck game. Interchange Play the hard 2 deck game. Starting again from left to right, place one card face up on the second pile and deal one card face down on piles three through seven.

Starting again from left to right, place one card face up on the third pile and deal one card face down on piles four through seven. Continue this pattern until pile seven has one card facing up on top of a pile of six cards facing down.

When starting out, the foundations and waste pile do not have any cards. The initial array may be changed by "building" - transferring cards among the face-up cards in the tableau. Certain cards of the tableau can be played at once, while others may not be played until certain blocking cards are removed.

For example, of the seven cards facing up in the tableau, if one is a nine and another is a ten, you may transfer the nine to on top of the ten to begin building that pile in sequence. Since you have moved the nine from one of the seven piles, you have now unblocked a face down card; this card can be turned over and now is in play.