Solitaire Card Game 3

Fortress
This Beleaguered Castle variant is much more difficult, because tableau piles are built in suit.
Layout
The entire pack is dealt into ten face-up tableau piles. The first two piles have six cards each and the remaining eight piles have five cards each.
Foundations
The eight aces, as they become available, are to be moved to a row above the tableau and built up in suit to kings.
Tableau
Tableau cards may be built up or down in suit. The top card of each pile is always available. A space made by removal of an entire pile may be filled by any available card from the tableau.

Fortune's Favor
This variation of Four Seasons plays more like Simplicity.
Foundations
The four aces are dealt to a row above the tableau to form the foundations, to be built up in suit to kings.
Tableau
Below the foundations, two rows of six cards each are dealt to form the tableau. Tableau cards may be built on each other downward, in suit. Only one card at a time may be moved from the top of a pile, and never into a space. Spaces in the tableau are immediately filled from the wastepile or hand. Top cards of the piles are available to be played on the foundations.
Wastepile
Turn up cards from the hand one by one, placing unplayable cards face up on the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile, as well as the card in the hand, is available for play.
Redeal
One redeal is permitted.

Forty Thieves
This game is probably the most widely known of two-pack solitaires. The original game is very difficult to win. Many variations have been developed, designed to give the player a better chance.
Pack
Two decks are used.
Layout
Four rows of ten cards each are dealt, each row overlapping the one above. This is the tableau.
Foundations
The eight aces, as they become available, are to be moved to a row above the tableau and built up in suit to kings.
Play
The bottom card of each column of the tableau is available to be played on foundations or built on other piles. Only one card may be moved at a time. The tableau cards may be built down in suit. A space made by removal of an entire pile may be filled by any available card from the tableau, wastepile, or hand.
Wastepile
Turn up cards from the hand one by one, placing unplayable cards face up on the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile, as well as the card in the hand, is available for play.

Four Kings
A way of playing Calculation that removes most of the choices...and the opportunity for skill.
Layout
Any ace, two, three, and four are placed in a row. These index cards serve as a reminder of the difference in each series. In a row below them, any two, four, six, and eight are placed. These are foundations.
The foundations are to be built up in arithmetical series as follows:
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K
4, 6, 8, 10, Q, A, 3, 5, 7, 9, J, K
6, 9, Q, 2, 5, 8, J, A, 4, 7, 10, K
8, Q, 3, 7, J, 2, 6, 10, A, 5, 9, K
Play
Turn up cards singly, placing unplayable cards face up on a single wastepile. The top card of this pile, and the card in hand, are available for play on foundations.
Redeal
Two redeals are permitted.

Four Seasons
A simple game to understand and play, but difficult to beat.
Layout
Five cards are dealt in the form of a cross to form the tableau. The next card is dealt to the upper-left corner space, as the first foundation.
Foundations
The other three cards of same rank as the first foundation are to be moved to the other corner spaces as they become available. The foundations are built up in suit until each pile is thirteen cards, aces following kings
Tableau
Tableau cards may be built on each other downward, regardless of suit. The sequence is circular, making ace and king adjacent in rank. Only one card at a time may be moved from the top of a pile. Spaces may be filled by available cards from the tableau, wastepile, or hand. Top cards of the piles are available to be played on the foundations.
Wastepile
Turn up cards from the hand one by one, placing unplayable cards face up on the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile, as well as the card in the hand, is available for play.

FreeCell
FreeCell is a conventional building game with the additional feature of free cells.
Layout
The entire pack is dealt into eight face-up tableau piles. Four free cells are available above and to the left of the tableau.
Foundations
The four aces, as they become available, are to be moved to a row above and to the right of the tableau to be built up in suit to kings.
Play
The top card of each tableau pile is available to be built on foundations, another tableau pile, or an empty free cell. Only one card is allowed at a time in a free cell. Cards in the free cells can be played to the foundations or on the tableau. Tableau piles may be built downward in alternating colors. Groups of cards, built down in sequence and alternating color, can be moved as a unit if there are enough empty free cells that the cards could have been moved individually.
A space in the tableau, by removal of an entire column, may be filled with a king or a stack of cards with a king on the bottom.

Frog
Frog is one of the few solitaires that are almost entirely a matter of skill. You control the outcome of the game by wisely placing the cards.
Pack
Two decks are used.
Layout
Thirteen face-up cards are dealt, squared up, and placed to the left to form the stock. Any aces in the stock are automatically placed to the foundations.
Foundations
If no ace was found in the stock, one ace is removed from the pack and placed to the foundation. The remaining aces, as they become available, are to be built up to kings, regardless of suit.
Play
Turn up cards one by one from the hand, placing unplayable cards on any of five wastepiles below the foundations. As many or as few cards may be put in one pile as desired.
Available for play on foundations are the top card of the stock, the top card of each wastepile, and the card turned from the hand.

Gargantua
Fans of Klondike may enjoy this two-deck variant.
Pack
Two decks are used.
Layout
The completed tableau consists of nine piles increasing in number from one to nine cards, with the top card of each pile face up and the rest face down.
Foundations
The eight aces, as they become available, are to be moved to a row above the tableau and built up in suit to kings.
Tableau
The face-up cards on the tableau are built down in alternating colors. Tableau cards may be built on each other, but all face-up cards on a pile must be moved as a unit.
Whenever such a transfer is made, the exposed face-down card on one pile is turned up and becomes available.
Top cards of tableau piles are always available for play on foundations. Aces should be moved up as soon as possible, but any higher card can be kept on the tableau for building purposes, if the player wishes, rather than built on a foundation.
A space in the tableau, by removal of an entire pile, may be filled only by a king, or by a build with a king at the bottom.
Wastepile
Turn up cards from the hand one by one, placing unplayable cards face up on the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile, as well as the card in the hand, is available for play.

Golf
While not too difficult, there is still some opportunity for skill. It is a favorite for competitive play.
Layout
Five rows of seven overlapping cards are dealt. One card is dealt below this tableau to start the foundation.
Play
The bottom cards of the tableau columns are available. The object of the game is to clear the tableau by building all the cards upon the foundation. Building is in sequence, up or down, regardless of suit. The sequence of rank is not circular. Only a two may be built on an ace, and nothing may be built on a king.
Whenever play comes to a standstill, turn up cards from the hand singly and place them on the foundation. Use each turn to take off as many cards from the tableau as possible. The game is won if the entire tableau is cleared away.

Good Measure
This is a variant of Baker's Dozen and about as difficult.
Layout
Two aces are removed from the pack and put in the foundation column. The remainder of the pack is dealt into five rows of ten face-up cards each, with the rows overlapping. All kings are automatically moved to the tops of their columns.
Foundations
The other two aces, as they become available, are to be moved to a column to the right of the tableau and built up in suit to kings.
Play
The top cards of the tableau piles are available to be played on foundations, and may be built on each other downward, regardless of suit. A space by removal of an entire pile is never filled.

Harp
Harp is Klondike played with two packs. It would be too easy if whole builds could be moved as one, so the rule makes only the top card available.
Pack
Two decks are used.
Layout
The completed tableau consists of nine piles increasing in number from one to nine cards, with the top card of each pile face up and the rest face down.
Foundations
The eight aces, as they become available, are to be moved to a row above the tableau and built up in suit to kings.
Tableau
The face-up cards on the tableau are built down in alternating colors. Only the top card of each tableau pile is available for building on the foundation or tableau. When the last face-up card is removed, the exposed face-down card is turned up and becomes available.
A space in the tableau may be filled only by an available king, but for this purpose a group of cards on top of a pile, in proper sequence and alternation, with a king on the bottom, may be moved as a unit.
Wastepile
Turn up cards from the hand one by one, placing unplayable cards face up on the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile, as well as the card in the hand, is available for play.
Redeal
Three redeals are permitted.


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