Double Solitaire

How to play Double Solitaire

Stock (59 cards)

Waste

Eight foundations, two for each suit

Nine columns

Double Solitaire is Klondike played with two decks shuffled together. Build all eight foundations from Ace to King to win: there are two for each suit.

• Nine columns are dealt, from one card up to nine, with only the bottom card of each face up. The other 59 cards make the stock.
• In the columns, build down in alternating colours: a red 6 on a black 7. With two decks, there are often two cards that fit.
• A run in order moves together onto another column. A face-down card turns over once the cards on it have moved.
• Only a King, or a run that starts with a King, can go into an empty column.
• Choose the stock to turn one card onto the waste. When the stock runs out, choose it again to turn the waste back over. You can go through it as often as you like.
• Move Aces to the foundations, then build each suit up in order. Either foundation of a suit will do. Cards that are safe to send home go there by themselves.
• To move cards, tap the card, then tap where it should go. You can drag instead. Double-tap a card to send it to its foundation.

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Double Solitaire for two players

The name also belongs to a table game for two people. Each player takes a deck with a different back and lays out an ordinary Klondike game. The foundations go in the middle, and both players can build on them. Players take turns. You move cards on your own layout and onto the foundations, and your turn ends when you turn the next card of your stock onto your discard pile. The first player to get every card onto the foundations wins; if you both get stuck, whoever has played more cards there wins (Pagat). On this page you play the one-player, two-deck version.

Tips

• Turn over the face-down cards early. The last columns hide eight cards each.
• When two cards could go on the same spot, play the one that turns over a face-down card.
• Keep a King ready for an empty column, since nothing else can fill it.

Keyboard

Arrow keys move between cards and piles. Enter or Space selects a card and places it. D draws from the stock, H shows a hint, Escape cancels a selection, and Ctrl+Z undoes a move.