Solitaire is the collective term for a variety of single-player card games, the most well-known of which is Klondike Solitaire. This game has grown in popularity to the point where most people simply refer to it as “Solitaire” without the “Klondike.” Let’s start by explaining what the playing field looks like to help you learn how to play the game. It is divided into four sections:

The tableau: Solitaire is played with 52 cards, 28 of which are placed across the tableau in seven piles. The first pile always has one card, and each successive pile has one more card than the one before it. Each pile’s last card is turned face up, while the others are turned face down.
After the 28 cards have been dealt into piles on the tableau, the stockpile is made up of the remaining 24 cards, which are turned face down.
The waste: After all of the stock cards have been played, they are placed face up in the rubbish pile.
The foundation: This is where all of the foundation, garbage, and tableau cards end up.
The stock, the waste, the tableau, and the four foundations are all present on the solitaire playing surface.

When you start a new game, you have the option of dealing one or three cards. The following rules apply to the simplest and most commonly played variation, which involves only one card. To win a game of Klondike Solitaire, you must move all of the cards from the tableau and stock to the four foundations, which are ordered by suit and in ascending order from Ace to King. You can move the face-up cards from pile to pile on the tableau, alternating in colour and descending order. You can, for example, change a black 7 to a red 8 in Figure 2. If the cards are already stacked on top of each other, you can shift them all at once.

Solitaire is played by moving cards around the tableau.

A concealed card will be turned over every time you transfer a card to another pile, offering you new alternatives. The bigger the number of cards that have been turned over, the better the odds of winning the game. Figure 3 shows that after relocating the 8, a new card, a black Ace, is turned over. We can also play it to the foundation right away because the first card of a foundation must always be an Ace.

Solitaire is played by moving the ace to the foundation. When there are no more permissible moves on the tableau, we shift to the stockpile. A new card is dealt to the rubbish every time you press or click on this pile. In order to reveal new cards, you should analyse each new card to see if it may be used someplace on the tableau.

Stacks of emptiness

Only a King can fill an empty space after you’ve completed a pile and thereby created an empty space. As quickly as feasible, transfer a King to the empty slot; this will also reveal a new card.

Solitaire with three cards
The same rules apply to three-card Solitaire, with the exception that not all of the stock cards are available. You are dealt three cards instead of one in this game, and you can only use the top card. When you move the top card, the second card rises to the top, and all the other cards in the stock rise one spot, giving you fresh alternatives.