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Step 1: To deal Klondike, you start by laying out seven cards from the deck. Layout the first card face up on your left-hand side. Next, place six cards face down on the right side of the initial card. You now have seven rows on which you'll build. These piles are also called the "tableau", but more on that later.

Step 2: Place a single card face-up on the second row and then deal five face-down cards on the remaining piles. I'm sure you're noticing a pattern emerge in the layout. To set up the remaining cards, follow the same pattern as before until there's a face-up card on all rows.

Step 3: Place the remainder of your deck above the first row. The rest of the cards are used in the game and will act as your "stock" pile. The seven rows should have a staircase pattern with the last card in each row facing up. The seven rows are also called the "tableau", which is where most of the gameplay will happen.

Step 4: Before getting into how to play the game, you'll need to leave room for your discard pile, also known as "waste" or "talon" pile. This pile is where you'll discard any cards you've drawn from your stock and can't use. The waste pile will start empty at the start of the game, but you'll use it continually throughout the game, so make sure you leave some space for it.

You'll also need to make room for your "foundation" piles. The foundation is used throughout the game as you get to clear cards from the tableau. They're also empty initially, so make sure you reserve some space for them.

Step 1: The object of Solitaire is to get all cards moved to the foundation piles in ascending order, starting with the ace and ending with the king. If you manage to get all your cards to end up on the foundation piles, then you've won the game.

When beginning a new game, the first thing to look out for is if any top cards are aces. If they are, you can move them to the foundation straight away.

Step 2: Once you move a top card to the foundation or another tableau, you'll reveal the face-down card beneath it. You can now turn your new top card over to find out what it is. In general, it's an ideal strategy to move cards to the foundation when possible, so move the new two of diamonds to the foundation pile.

Step 3: Now that there are no more cards that can be moved to the foundation, move cards from one tableau to another wherever possible. You can move a card from one tableau to another if the card being moved is lower than and another color than the card it's being moved onto.

Step 4: You can also move several cards at a time, as long as the cards being moved are in descending order and alternating colors. Keep placing the cards on the tableau on top of each other until there are no more available moves.

Step 5: In Klondike Turn Three, you can draw three cards from the stock pile and move them face-up onto the waste pile when there are no more available moves, which gives you the opportunity of using the top card in the waste pile. There's also a version of the game, Klondike Turn One, that lets you turn one card at a time from the stock pile, but in the classic version, you draw three cards at a time. You can draw as many times as you want throughout the game, and once there are no more cards in the stock pile, simply grab the waste pile, turn it over, place it on the stock pile, and you can draw again.

Step 6: The last rule you need to know about is how to start a new tableau. If there's an empty tableau, then you're allowed to move a king to it, but only a king! Once you're moved a king there, the tableau acts as any other tableau.

Step 7: All there's left to do now is repeat all the moves explained above until, knock on wood, you win the game, which means you'll end up with all the cards in the foundation piles.

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There are hundreds of different patience games, mostly card-based, but people tend to stick to a few select games. Since Microsoft started to package these famous card games in 1990 alongside Windows 3.0, Classic Solitaire has stood out as people's favorite. Out of the 143m games played on this site, Classic Solitaire accounts for a whopping 60%, and the numbers are about the same on similar sites.

The tableau piles are numbered from one to seven. The first pile has one card on it, and the second has two, and so on. The top card on each tableau is turned face up, and the cards below are turned face down. The cards left after being moved to the tableau are placed face down on the stock. Both the waste and the foundations start without any cards on them.

There are seven rows in a game of Solitaire. These rows are also referred to as tableaus. They're laid out in a pattern resembling a reverse staircase, with each row having one more card than the last row.

The foundation is where all cards end up when playing the game. The first card to go on the foundation is an ace, the second a two, and so forth. Once all cards are is in the tableau, the game has been won.

You place a card on each of the seven rows, and then you turn the first card face-up. After that, you put a card on the last six rows, leaving out the first row, and then you turn over the first card in that column. You keep doing this until all rows have a face-up card.

All the cards need to end up in the foundation piles to win this game. 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, one, two, etc.). To get to move cards to the foundations, the player can use the following moves:

• Move cards from stock to waste: You can flip either one or three cards from the stock to the waste. The amount can be configured under settings.
• Move a card from waste to a foundation: You can move a card from the waste to the foundation if the card's rank and its suit are correct.
• Move a card from waste to a tableau: You can move a card from the waste to the foundation if the card's rank and suit are correct.
• 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 tableau to another if the rank of the first card in the pile is one higher than the tableau you're moving to and the color is opposite of the card being moved.
• You can move a tableau card onto the foundations: You can do this manually or let it happen automatically. This can be configured under settings.

All the cards need to end up in the foundation piles to win. 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, one, two, etc.).

The scoring used is the traditional one used in the Microsoft Windows™ games. You can see a table of the scoring below:

• Waste to tableau: 5 points
• Waste to foundation: 10 points
• Tableau to foundation: 10 points
• Turn over tableau card: 5 points
• Foundation to tableau: -15 points