Card Games

The Klondike variant has as a goal to sort all cards in the respective 4 stacks for each kind of card. The stacks start with Aces, which have to be the first card, following the numbers up to 10 and then going up to the jack, the king, and the queen.

Besides the 4 stacks for each suit there is additionally a card stack with mixed cards with the back side up, wherefrom the player gets his cards.

To begin the game mix all cards, make 7 rows ascending in number of cards to the right (1st row -> 1 card, 2nd row -> 2 cards, …, 7th row -> 7 cards) while putting the cards on their back. Pick the last card of each row and put it with the front facing the player, such that always the last card in each row is open, whilst the other ones are hidden. Moreover, to start the game, look through the cards whether there is a card that you can add to another stack such that the card above it has the opposite color (either black or red) AND the card added, so the card below, is one value lower than the other (Ace -> King -> Queen -> Jack -> 10 - > 9 -> 8 -> 7 -> 6 -> 5 -> 4 -> 3 -> 2). Beware that when moving cards to another stack you can move multiple at once as long as they git (which also makes sense, since you would be able to move them after each other either way). The objective now is to sort those piles while keeping an eye on the 4 stacks, and putting each fitting card on one of the stacks, so that they are ascending in value starting with the Ace and ending with the King (Ace -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> … -> 10 -> Jack -> Queen -> King). At the point where all cards from the piles are on the stacks, you won. Beware that not every game can be won and you will encounter frustrating games, which are impossible to win.

The best option is to get those 52 cards big French card sets with the smaller cards in particular (often labeled as for playing Solitaire/Patience), which don't require as much space on the table. Alternatively, if you cannot afford them (they are like 15 euros), or you are addicted to your screen, you can download PySolFC, which is a free software game with every imaginable variant and even more card decks and customization options to choose from (and even some music and other cool stuff).

(Obviously, a lot of here is preference, as other people might have a different set of rules.) First you mix all cards giving each player 12 cards, except for one player, who gets 13 cards. The remaining cards are left with their backside facing up on the table. The player with the additional card is the first one to play. The game goes clockwise and each player has to take one card per round, and throw one away to the dedicated throw-away pile, which is facing up, so everyone can see it. To begin playing, the player has to put a row of cards on the table, of which all the cards in the row have a combined value of 30 (or 40 if you prefer it more difficult). A row consists either of cards in ascending/descending order (in terms of the cards' value), or cards of the same value but different suit. In regards to the rows of the same value, the same suit can only appear once, as such they are maximally 4 cards long. The rows of ascending/descending value have to be only ascendent/descendent by one, not more. Once you got your own row valued 30 (or 40), you can add your own cards to the rows of the other players, wherein the same rules apply as if it were your own. If aren't playing currently, but want a card put on the throw-away pile (because the throw-away pile is facing up, and is visible to everyone, unlike the other pile), you can knock on the table to interrupt the game, and get that card, otherwise you can get your cards from the pile with the hidden cards.

You can place multiple cards at once on the table.

The most important aspect of the game is that you can disband a row to create new rows, even the ones of the other players. For instance if somebody has a row as follows:

• 8, 9, 10, Joker, Queen

while your own row is

• Jack, Queen, King, Ace

You can remove the joker of the other player from their row, and place it in your own, such that it results in:

• other player: 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen
• you: Joker, Queen, King Ace

You can take as many of them as you want, as long as no card remains misplaced (as in placed at a place where it doesn't belong, or remains as a singular card) at the end of your round

You win the game as soon as you get rid off all your cards by having lied them down somewhere on the table, either in your rows, or in the othe ones.

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