Klondike Solitaire is the classic version of single player solitaire, played with a standard 52-card deck. The game involves arranging cards in sequence from lowest to highest rank by drawing from the stock, with four areas for playing cards. The game is won when all cards are placed in order on the basic spaces. The game board is set up with a tableau, foundations, stock, and discard pile. The objective is to place cards from the deck into the tableau in a specific order. The game can be played with two different methods, either drawing cards from the deck only once or turning the discard pile face down without shuffling the cards.
There are a large variety of rules that can be used to play single player solitaire, but the one that is considered the classic version is known as Klondike Solitaire. The Solitaire rules begin with the use of a standard 52-card deck with the jokers removed. There are four areas where cards are played: the tableau, the foundations, the stock, and the discard or discard pile. The object of the game is to arrange the cards in sequence from lowest to highest rank cards by drawing from the stock. Cards that cannot be placed on top of a higher ranked card in the tableau are placed on the discard pile and the process continues until all cards are placed in order on the basic spaces.
The first step in setting up the game board according to commonly accepted Solitaire rules is to establish the tableau. This area begins with a single card face up on the left side of the area. After the top card is dealt, six more are dealt face down, each to the right of the last to form a line of cards. The process repeats with one card being placed face up on top of the second tableau pile and then five more face down in each pile to the right of that. This continues progressively until a card is placed face up on top of the last pile on the right.
The remaining cards are placed face down in a single pile in the upper left of the play area. This deck, called the stock, is the area from which new cards will be drawn. To the right of the deck is the area where unused, face-up cards are discarded. The waste pile is to the left of the foundation piles. The foundation piles begin with the lowest-ranking card, an Ace in the solitaire rules, and end with the highest-ranking card, the King.
The basic rules of the game begin after the board has been set up, at which point the player draws three cards from the deck. The first objective is to place the cards from the deck into the tableau in a specific order. Cards from the deck can only be placed on face-up cards in the tableau that are exactly one value higher, and only on cards of the opposite color. Thus, a black eight of spades can only be placed in the tableau on top of a nine with a red suit, heart or diamond.
The different piles of cards in the tableau can be moved to complete or lengthen other piles as long as the pattern is continued. Only a king, alone or on top of a pile, can be placed on an empty tableau space. When cards are moved to the tableau or returned to foundation spaces, the face down cards are revealed. These cards can be turned face up as they become available.
Ultimately, the Solitaire rules define winning as all four base spaces are filled with all cards from the deck. Each of the four basic spaces can contain only one card suit. Since every card from Ace to King becomes available as a face-up card, both in draws from the deck and in the tableau, they can be placed on the foundation spaces.
There are two distinct methods of play that can have a significant effect on the outcome of the game. The original Solitaire rules allow the player to draw cards from the deck only once. When all the cards in the deck have been drawn, the game is concluded. A different set of rules allows the player to turn the discard pile face down without shuffling the cards and start drawing cards again.
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