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Klondike Rules

These rules describe Klondike as implemented in the app: standard setup and play, with 1-card and 3-card draw modes for the stock and unlimited passes through it in both modes.

Objective

Move all 52 cards to the four foundations, building each suit from Ace to King.

Terminology

  • Tableau: Seven piles where cards are played and rearranged.
  • Foundations: Four suit piles built up from Ace to King.
  • Stock: The face-down draw pile.
  • Waste: Face-up cards turned from the stock — only the top card is playable.

Setup

  • Use a standard 52-card deck (no jokers).
  • Tableau: Deal seven piles left to right. The first pile has 1 card, the second 2, and so on to the seventh with 7 — only each pile's top card is face up.
  • Foundations: Four empty piles, one per suit.
  • Stock: Remaining cards are placed face down.
  • Waste: Empty pile beside the stock.

Play

Tableau

  • Build tableau piles down in rank while alternating colors (e.g., red 6 on black 7).
  • You may move a face-up card or a properly ordered sequence as a unit.
  • When a face-up card is moved, flip the next card in that pile face up.
  • Empty tableau spaces may be filled only by a King (or a sequence starting with a King).

Foundations

  • Foundations are built by suit from Ace to King.
  • Aces start each foundation pile.

Stock and waste

  • Tap the stock to turn one card (1-card draw) or three cards (3-card draw) onto the waste.
  • Only the top waste card is playable.
  • When the stock is exhausted, the waste turns face down to form a new stock. Unlimited passes are allowed in both draw modes.

Scoring

  • Waste to tableau: +5.
  • Waste to foundation: +10.
  • Tableau to foundation: +10.
  • Turning a tableau card face up: +5.
  • Foundation back to tableau: −15.
  • Recycling the waste in 1-card draw: −100.
  • On a win, a time bonus is added: it starts at 600 in 1-card draw and 900 in 3-card draw, and drops by one point per second of play.
  • The score never drops below zero.

Winning

You win when all cards are moved to the foundations in ascending order by suit.

Rule choices

Published Klondike rules differ mainly in how the stock is handled. This implementation uses:

  • Unlimited stock passes in both draw modes. Several published rule sets cap 3-card draw at three passes.
  • The classic −100 recycle penalty in 1-card draw, where unlimited free passes would otherwise remove the mode's tension — 3-card recycles are free.
  • Kings only on empty piles (the standard rule, though some variants allow any card).

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