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This article is about the card game. For the old-fashioned name “Curds and whey”, see cottage cheese. For the dairy products, see curd and whey. For the nursery rhyme, see Little Miss Muffet.
The cards are dealt into 13 piles (or columns) of four cards each. The top card of each pile is available for play.
There are no foundations in this game; the object is to form four suit sequences each running from King down to Ace.
A card can be built in only two ways:
Over a card that is of the same suit and of a higher rank, or
Over a card that is of the same rank but of a different suit.
For example, the 8♣ can be built over the 9♣ or any other 8 (such as the 8♠).
One card can be moved at a time unless a sequence has been made. If a sequence of cards follows either one of the following two guidelines:
Sequences that are built down by suit
Sequences of cards with the same rank
...it can be moved as a unit in part or in whole. However, a sequence that follows both guidelines at once must be rearranged to follow only one guideline before moving as a unit.
When a column becomes empty, it can only be filled by a King or a sequence starting with a King.
The game is won when the object above is fulfilled, forming four suit sequences each running from King down to Ace.
Klondike or Canfield (traditional) is a patience game. In the U.S. and Canada, Klondike is the best-known solitaire card game, to the point that the term "solitaire", in the absence of additional qualifiers, typically refers to Klondike. Equally in the UK, it is often just known as "patience". Elsewhere the game is known as American Patience.
Simple Simon is a Patience game played with a regular 52 cards deck. It became somewhat popular being featured in some computerized collections of Solitaire card games, but its origins possibly predate its implementation as a computerized game.
Gaps is a member of the Montana group of Patience games, where the arrangement of cards from Deuce to King is the object. Other games in the group include Spaces, Vacancies, Clown Solitaire, Paganini, Montana itself, Red Moon, and Blue Moon.
Eight Off is a form of patience, named after its employment of eight cells, played with one deck of playing cards. The object of the game is to move all the cards into the foundations.
Napoleon at St Helena is a patience card game. It is quite difficult to win, and relies mostly on luck. It is also known as Forty Thieves, Roosevelt at San Juan, Big Forty and Le Cadran.
Agnes is a solitaire card game, a variant of Klondike. It is similar to the latter except on how the stock is dealt.
Scorpion is a Patience game using a deck of 52 playing cards. Although somewhat related to Spider, the method of game play is akin to Yukon. The object of this game is to form four columns of suit sequence cards from king down to ace.
Baker's Dozen is a solitaire card game using a deck of fifty-two playing cards. The game is so called because of the 13 columns in the game, the number in a baker's dozen.
Royal Cotillion is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. The name probably derives from the fact that since the two kings and two queens of the same suit, the king and queen of each suit dance the cotillion. Authors Sloane Lee and Gabriel Packard gave this game the alternate name of Lords and Ladies because if the game is won, the final layout will show the king and queen of each suit together.
Bisley is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the few one-deck games in which the player has options on which foundation a card can be placed.
British Square is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. It has an unusual feature of switchback building whereby each foundation is first built up and then built down.
Crescent is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards mixed together. The game is so called because when the cards are dealt properly, the resulting piles should form a large arc or a crescent.
Mrs. Mop is a Patience game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Invented by Charles Jewell, it is a relative of the solitaire game Spider in which all of the cards are dealt face up at the beginning of the game. The game seems easy at first, but when played, winning is difficult and it is rare to be able to complete the game successfully.
Penguin is a solitaire card game, invented by David Parlett, which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. The game play is similar to other solitaire card games as Freecell and Eight Off.
Westcliff is a solitaire card game which is played using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is a variation of Klondike that is fairly easy to win; one can win this game nine times out of ten.
Miss Milligan is a patience game which is played using two decks of playing cards. According to Peter Arnold, author of Card Games for One, this classic game's popularity in England is due to the player's ability to recover from seemingly hopeless positions.
Alternation is a Patience game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Its tableau is similar to that of another solitaire game, Stonewall.
Patriarchs is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. It is similar in reserve layout to Odd and Even but with different game play.
Four Corners, also known as Les Quatre Coins, Cornerstones, or Corner Patience, is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. It is so called because of the pile of four cards at the corners of the tableau. The version discussed in this article is the more prevalent versions printed in two books: Card Games for One by Peter Arnold and The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games by Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith.
Moojub is a solitaire card game which is played using one deck of playing cards. Invented by Geoffrey Mott-Smith and Albert H. Morehead and included in their book The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games, it has been included in some solitaire computer packages such as Solitaires, Solitude, and TDC Games Suite. It is also one of the easier games to win: a player can win half of his games.
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