Solitaire Turn 3

**OVERVIEW**

**Solitaire** is a card game that can be played by a single person using a standard 52-card deck. The main goal here is to arrange the cards according to a predetermined pattern.

*Solitarius* is a Latin word in which the word solitaire originated. The word is an adjective which means “lonely; isolated”. The word solitaire first appeared in English by the 16th century to mean “a widow”. Then, in the early 1700s, it was used to mean ‘recluse’ – a person who lives a solitary life. In 1727, the term was first used to mean ‘a single precious stone’. Eventually in 1746, the word was used as a term referring to a card game.

**Klondike** is a solitaire card game best known in the US and Canada. The term is already used which equally means solitaire. The term Klondike was named after the “Klondike Gold Rush” in the Canadian region where the game is believed to be created or popularized by one of the 100,000 prospectors in the migration. **Canfield** is another term traditionally used for Klondike. However, Canfield, devised by Richard Canfield, refers to a more difficult version of a solitaire card game. Moreover, in the UK, **Patience** is the term used to refer to a solitaire card game. Other terms used are **American Patience**, **Fascination**, **Triangle** or **Demon Patience**.

The solitaire game sometimes refers to two kinds of games. The first one is the game in which pieces are moved around the board until only one piece is left. The other one is the solitaire card game played by only one individual using 52-deck of cards.

Solitaire is played by so many people around the globe regardless of gender, age or race. It is a game that tests someone’s patience. Through the emerging technology, playing solitaire online at the comfort of one’s home is very much possible. Hence, variations of solitaire card game have emerged.

**ARRANGEMENT OF CARDS**

The four important things to know before playing a solitaire game are: the tableau, the stock, the waste and the foundations. At the start of the game, you will see these four arrangements on the screen.

**The Tableau**: It consists of seven piles arranged from left to right. The first pile has 1 card; the second pile has 2 cards; the third pile has 3 cards and so on until the seventh pile. Only the card on the top is faced up.

**The Stock**: The remaining cards from the tableau make the Stock.

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**The Waste**: From the Stock, 3 cards will be drawn. This pile of 3 cards drawn is called the waste.

**The Foundations**: It consists of four piles. The cards should be placed in each pile in ascending order from Ace to King based on their specific suits.  At the beginning, each pile in the foundations is empty.

**HOW TO PLAY**

Arranging the shuffled deck of cards is the ultimate objective to achieve success in playing solitaire.

Once you start to play solitaire, the screen will show the standard layout of the game. The 28 cards will be arranged as the game’s Tableau. Then, the remaining 24 cards will be the Stock. All the remaining cards in the Stock will be piled up facing down.

In the Tableau, 7 piles will be arranged from left to right; the first column with one card, the 2nd with 2, the 3rd with 3 and so on until the last column with 7 cards. In each column, only the card at the topmost will be revealed at the beginning. This is called the free Waste card. The remaining cards in each column will be faced down.

To start the game, look for possible cards to be moved to the Foundations. In this case, the Ace should be the first card to be placed on the Foundations according to its suit. More cards will be placed at the Foundations following the ascending order until you reach the last card which is the King.

However, if there is no possible card to be placed in the Foundations, cards can still be moved within the other columns in the Tableau. A card can be moved to a different column within the Tableau following the descending and alternate-colored order.

If no card is to be moved within the Tableau or to the Foundations, you can start drawing a waste from the Stock. The topmost card in the waste can be placed in the Tableau or in the Foundations. By clicking the Waste card in the waste, it will be automatically placed to its proper column in the Tableau or proper cell in the Foundations. When the next card doesn’t fit in any of the two, you can draw another waste from the Stock and do the same procedure as with the first draw.

In the event that all the cards in one column have been shown and the column becomes empty, the standard rule of putting a King on the empty column must be applied. Again, cards can be placed after the King card in a descending alternate-colored order.

When all the cards have been moved to the Foundations in ascending order until all the Kings are at the topmost, the game is done and it’s a win game. However, if the player fails to arrange all the cards in their respective suits in the Foundation and discontinue with the game, it is a lost game. The player can reset the game in the MENU option and restart from the beginning.