Free Games
Free Solitaire Card Games
Card games for one player are called Patience in Britain and Solitaire in America. The rest of the Card Games web site deals mostly with games for more than one player, but on this page I have provided some links to sites which specialise in one-player games. Some of these sites contain rules or analysis, and many of them provide software, since these soliary games being particularly suitable for play against a computer. If you have further links or information that should be included on this page, please let me know.
Solitaire a top free card game and is also a great way to pass the time and exercise the mind, whether you play solitaire with regular cards, or on a computer screen.
Solitaire is comprised of one deck of cards and is also known as
The Initial Layout consists of seven columns, with the first colum containing one card, the second column two cards, the third column three cards, and so on. The top card of each column is face-up; the remainder of the cards are face-down. The 24 unplayed cards are left face-down to form the stock.
The object of the game is to move the four aces, as they appear, to the foundations, and build each up in suit from ace to king (A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K).
To Play, simply turn cards face-up from the stock three at a time onto a wastepile. The top card of the wastepile may be played onto the tableau or foudations. Likewise, the top card of each tableau pile is available for play onto the foundations or another tableau pile. Cards within the tableau may be build down in sequence and alternating color. A sequence of cards may be moved as a unit from one pile to another. When a face-down tableau card is exposed, turn it face-up. If a space is created in the tableau, it may only be filled with a king. The stock may be recycled from the wastepile when it becomes empty. The game ends when either all foundations are filled (in which case you've won), or when no more moves are possible (or when the only possible move is to recycle the stock). In this case you've lost.
A slightly easier version of the free card game allows you to pull cards from the stock one at a time (rather than three at a time). In some versions of the game, this also limits the number of redeals you're allowed (usually to two).
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