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How to Play Klondike Solitaire
Solitaire is a game of patience that, as the name suggests, is played alone!
The game's layout consists of three different parts:
- the 'Tableau' consists of 28 cards made up of 7 piles that increase in size. Each pile has the corresponding number of cards: the 1st pile has 1 card, the 2nd has 2, the third has 3, etc... up to the pile with 7 cards. At the start of the game, only the top card is face up.
- the 'Reserve' (otherwise known as Depot) consists of the remaining 24 cards of the game that are stacked face down.
- the 'Foundations' consist of 4 FreeCells, usable from the beginning of the game.
The goal of Klondike Solitaire is to fill the 4 Foundations by following ascending suit sequences (ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, and king) of the same suit (clubs, spades, diamonds, or hearts).
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- in the Tableau's piles, follow descending suit sequences (king, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, ace) with alternating colors (red or black: the card suit does not matter).
- you can only place kings on the Tableau's FreeCells.
- you can move descending sequences of any number of cards to another pile , or move an entire pile to a new cell.
- when useful, you can take a card from one of the 4 Foundations, and place it on the Tableau.
- draw a card from the Reserve if there are no more possibles moves.