April 27th, 2011

Free Online Solitaire Games

Solitaire games are really popular because they are simple, fun card games, that can be played by a single user, and have so many different versions that one might never get bored trying them all. Speaking of this option, have you ever been interested in experiencing more than the classic solitaire you have preinstalled with your Windows operating system? It would be such a pity if you do not experience some of the solitaire games available on the internet. You do not have to pay anything, no download or installation is required, but the maximum fun is granted.

This Solitaire version is played with two decks of cards, shuffled together. A part of them would be disposed in a row of ten columns, called Tableau, the rest would be left in one corner to form the Stock and at the bottom of the screen there will be eight Foundations – positions where the suites will be moved as soon as they are formed. The columns have all the cards face down, and only the last one would be face up. Using the mouse, you will have to drag and drop the cards you can see in order to arrange descending suits from King to Ace. When you will find yourself unable to make any other changes, you can take out cards from the Stock. One important aspect to keep in mind is that you are free to move both single cards and subsequences of cards, as long as you follow the rule. For the game to not block quickly, do your best to form suites of the same color.

Klondike
Klondike is one Solitaire game that has its own multiple versions. The one that you are about to learn can be found on Solitaire City and is even more exciting because it adds the pressure of the timed scoring. The faster you finish the game, the more points you will be rewarded with.You will be playing with a single deck of cards. Again, there is a Tableau formed by seven columns, on which 28 of the 52 cards are face down dealt. The first column has only one card, face up, the second one has two cards with the last one face up, the third column has three cards with only one face up and so far until the seventh one. On the left corner there will be the Stock, followed by a Waste Pile and the four foundations.The Waste Pile has three positions of face up cards. The mission would be to combine the cards from the Waste Pile with the ones from the tableau, from Ace to King, respecting the colors and placing them on the Foundations.

Pyramid Solitaire
For this game, 52 playing cards are necessary. 21 of them will form a pyramid on six overlapped rows. Because of this distribution, two other cards will lock every single card from the first five rows. You cannot access it until you discard those two. However, you should start the game with the six cards placed on the last row, which are not blocked by anything. Then there is a so – called Reserve, with six cards placed in a row, a Discard Pile, a Stock and a Waste Pile. You must discard all the cards from the deck to destroy the pyramid.

Nevertheless, you cannot discard them one by one. You need to do that with pairs, excepting the Aces, Jacks, Queens and Kings that are more valuable taken separately. You take a card from the Stock, try to pair it with one free card from the pyramid and if you can, you move the pair into the Discard; if you cannot, you throw it on the Waste Pile, from where you can take it later. That would be all.