Rules for Klondike
Introduction

System Requirements

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Features
Autoplay to Foundations
Speed/Status Bar
Game Options
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Smart-Dragging
Game Statistics

How do I...?
Undo/Redo a Move or an Autoplay
Move a Card to a Foundation
Start a New Game
Select a Specific Game/Deal
Restart a Game
Change the Card Back
Change the Card Appearance
Change the Card Spacing
Change the Game Background
Enable/Disable Sounds
Other Miscellaneous Options

Game Rules
Aces Up
Australian Patience
Baker's Dozen
Baker's Game
Beleaguered Castle
Canfield
Double Klondike
Double Scorpion
Double Yukon
Eight Off
Flower Garden
Forty Thieves
FreeCell
Giza
Golf
Indian Patience
Klondike
La Belle Lucie
Montana
Nestor
Pyramid
Pyramid Golf
Queen of Italy
Russian Solitaire
Scorpion
Scorpion II
Sea Towers
Simple Simon
Spider
Yukon

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Also sometimes referred to as Fascination, Triangle, Demon Patience, and Chinaman. This is also the same game as the familiar Microsoft Windows solitaire. Similar games in Snood Solitaire include Double Klondike and Canfield.

Layout

  • Twenty-eight cards dealt in seven tableau piles.
  • The number of cards per pile increases from one to seven from left to right.
  • The top card of each pile is face up (exposed), the rest are face down (hidden).

Play

  • Build exposed cards down in value and alternating suit color.
  • The top card of a pile is always available for play on a foundation.
  • Exposed cards built down in value and alternating suit color can be moved as a unit if the bottommost card of the pile may be built on top of another pile.
  • Whenever the exposed cards of a pile are cleared away, the next card is exposed and becomes available for play.
  • A space made by clearing away an entire pile may be filled by only a King (plus the cards, if any, built on the King).

Stock

  • Turn up cards from the stock one or three at a time (see Variations below) in a discard pile.
  • The top card of the discard pile is available for play on foundations or tableau piles.
  • Unused cards in the discard pile are recycled after the stock is depleted.

Foundations

  • Move the four Aces to the row above the tableau as they are made available.
  • Build the foundations in ascending suit sequence from Ace to King.

To Win

  • Move all the cards to the foundations.

Available Variations: Use the popup menu in the speed bar to select either one-card or three-card draw. Once a game is started, the number to draw cannot be altered without starting a new game.

This particular implementation of Klondike has no limit on the number of times the discard pile may be recycled.

Scoring: One point for each card moved to a foundation. Maximum score is 52.

Chance of Winning: 1 in 30 games for three card draw variation. Better odds for one-card draw. Statistics for one card draw and three card draw are tracked separately.

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