The rules below concern the easy and most frequently played version, dealing 1 card. When you start a new game, you can choose whether you want to deal 1 card or 3 cards.

The foundation: All the cards of the stock, waste and tableau ultimately end up here.

The waste: Once all the cards of the stock have been brought into play, they end up face up in the waste pile.

The stock: After the 28 cards have been dealt into piles on the tableau, the remaining 24 cards comprise the stockpile and are turned face down.

Only the last card of each pile is turned face up and the rest are turned face down. The first pile always consists of 1 card, with each subsequent pile containing 1 more card than the preceding one.

The tableau: Solitaire is played with 52 cards, with 28 of them being distributed in 7 piles across the tableau.

To help you learn to play the game, let’s first explain what the playing field looks like. This game has even become so popular over time that most people simply call it “Solitaire”, without the “Klondike”.

Solitaire is the collective name for a large number of single-player card games, of which Klondike Solitaire is the best known.

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