Solitaire guide
Solitaire best practices
Tips for playing well, the most useful first.
- Turn over face-down cards first. A move that uncovers a hidden card usually beats one that doesn't.
- When more than one move would uncover a card, take it from the column with the most face-down cards.
- Play what's already showing on the table before you draw from the stock.
- Send aces and twos to the foundations right away. Before sending a 3 or higher, check that no column still needs it.
- Build the foundations evenly, rather than rushing one suit far ahead of the others.
- Empty a column only when you have a king ready to go there. An empty column takes nothing else.
- When two kings could fill an empty column, pick the one whose color suits the cards you need to move next.
- You can move part of a face-up run, not only all of it. That's often how you reach a card you need.
- A card on a foundation can come back down to a column when that frees a move. It costs 15 points.
- With draw 3, playing one card from the waste changes which cards come up on the next pass through the stock.
- Use Undo to try a line of play. If it leads nowhere, take it back and try another.