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How to play Solitaire Turn Three

This summary is for all of you who have played the game before but need a refresher on how to play. If you're a beginner, check out my guide on how to play Solitaire, complete with illustrations and a video tutorial.

The game's goal is to move all cards from the tableau onto the foundation piles. If you manage to do that, you've won!

The game consists of 4 main areas:

• The tableau: Where most of the game takes place. You move the cards around in seven columns.
• The stock: The pile of cards face down from which you draw.
• The waste: Where the cards from the stock will be laid out face up.
• The foundation: Where you want all your cards to end up ordered by suit and rank.

The foundation piles are ordered by suit and rank. Each foundation has one suit, and cards must be placed on the foundation in order (ace, two, three, and so on). You can use the following moves to move cards around between the tableau and the foundation:

• Move cards from stock to waste: You can choose between a game with either one or three cards turning at a time.
• Move a card from waste to a foundation: The card you're moving has to be one rank higher than the top card of the foundation and of the same suit.
• Move a card from waste to a tableau: This time, the card you're moving has to be one rank lower than the card you place it on, and of the opposite color.
• Move a card from the foundation back to the tableau: If need be, you can move a card from the foundation back onto the tableau.
• Move one or more cards from one tableau to another: You can move one or several cards from one column to another on the tableau if the card rank in the column you're moving to is one higher than the card you're placing onto it. Also, the color must be the opposite of the card you're moving.
• You can move a tableau card onto the foundations: The card you're moving has to be one rank higher than the top card on the foundation you're moving it to, and it has to be of the same suit. These types of moves happen automatically. You can turn off autoplay under settings.

Good luck while playing!

Solitaire Strategy: How to Win

A handful of habits separate a stalled game from a solved one.

Send Aces and Twos up straight away

Aces and deuces do no work in the tableau, so there's no reason to hold them. Turn up the A♠ and send it to the foundation at once, then let the 2♠ follow the moment it appears.

Otherwise, keep low cards in play

Low cards are more useful in the tableau than on the foundation. If the 5♦ can go either to the foundation or onto a black 6 (6♣ or 6♠), keep it in play, so it still gives a black 4 somewhere to land later.

Uncover the biggest face-down pile first

Turning hidden cards face up is the whole game. Work the column hiding the most face-down cards first, even if a tidier one is tempting.

Don't empty a column without a King ready

An empty column only helps if you can fill it, and only a King (or King-led run) may move into a gap. Before clearing a column's last card, make sure a King is ready to move in.

When two plays are possible, pick the one that frees more

If either red 7 could move onto the 8♠, and the 7♥ covers three face-down cards while the 7♦ covers none, move the 7♥, and that play turns a hidden card face up.

Think one color ahead

Every tableau build alternates color, so plan the next card before you commit. Move the J♣ onto the Q♥ and you now need a red 10 (10♥ or 10♦), so don't bury both red tens first.

Cycle the stock before you rush

In Turn 3, only every third card reaches the top of the waste, so run through the whole stock once to see what's there. If a card you need is buried, plan the moves that will bring it up.

Shift the Turn 3 rhythm to reach a buried card

Playing one waste card before you recycle the stock changes which cards land on top next pass. If the 9♠ you want keeps landing mid-group, play a waste card earlier in the pass, then recycle, and the 9♠ shifts within reach.

Turn 1 vs Turn 3

The only difference between the two is how many cards you draw from the stock at once. In Turn 1, you flip a single card at a time, so every card in the stock surfaces on each pass and gets its chance to be played. In Turn 3, cards come off three at a time and only the top of each group is immediately playable, which means roughly two-thirds of the stock is out of reach at any given moment.

That one change makes Turn 3 noticeably harder. You have to plan around the rhythm, and the last two strategy tips above show you how. It's the classic "expert" setting, and the one this page deals by default. If you'd rather have every card only one draw away, play Turn 1 Klondike instead.

How Hard Is Solitaire?

Harder than it looks. Nobody has ever managed to work out exactly how many Klondike deals can be won with perfect play - mathematicians still argue about it. What I can tell you comes straight from our own numbers, and you can check them yourself under Statistics. People have played more than 296 million games of Klondike Turn 3 on this site, and 27% of them end in a win. Turn 1 is a lot kinder - across more than 100 million games here, players win just under half. For the best odds, pick the Winnable shuffle instead.

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