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Dnieper deals a fresh card onto every column like Easthaven, lets you drag any face-up group like Yukon, and wraps a King straight onto an Ace. About a 15% win rate.

Dnieper Solitaire is named after the great river of Eastern Europe and sits squarely in the same family as Ukrainian Solitaire: the tableau is built down in suit, any face-up group may be moved regardless of order, and only complete thirteen-card suit sequences may be sent to the foundations. Two things set it apart — the stock deals a fresh card onto every column, as in Easthaven, and building wraps around, so a King may be played directly on an Ace. It's a difficult game, with about a 15% chance of winning, played with a single deck, and success depends mostly on skill.

Like Russian and Yukon, its closest kin, the game trades Klondike's polite one-card shuffle for wholesale digging: any face-up card can be hauled to a new column with everything piled on top of it coming along for the ride. The wrap-around rule is the river's little gift — when an Ace sits stranded on top of a column, a King may be laid right onto it, turning a dead end into a fresh start.

Time your stock deals with care. Each click drops a card onto every column, burying whatever you left exposed, so tidy the tableau before you deal, and there is only one pass through the stock. The face-down cards are the real enemy: flip them early, and remember that nothing reaches the foundations until an entire suit has been assembled in order on the tableau.

Fans of Ukrainian Solitaire will recognize the bones here, and Easthaven Solitaire and Yukon Solitaire each supplied one of its two borrowed rules.

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How to play Dnieper Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Take only complete thirteen-card sequences of one suit, built on the tableau.

7 tableau piles: Build down in the same suit; a King may also be played on an Ace. Any face-up group of cards may be moved together, in order or not. Any card can fill an empty space. At the start of the game, each pile is dealt four cards, three face-down and one face-up.

Stock: By clicking on the stock, you deal one card to each tableau pile. There are no redeals.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles.

Single cards are never allowed to be moved to the foundation. Only once you've built a complete sequence on the tableau, thirteen cards of one suit in order from ace to king, can it be transferred to the foundation. Completed sequences are moved over automatically.

The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.

Tableau:

Seven tableau piles fan out downward, four cards dealt to each. The top card in every pile starts face-up; the rest are dealt face-down.

A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower and the same suit as the pile's current top card, so the only card that fits on a 9 of spades is an 8 of spades. Building wraps around, so a King may also be played on an Ace.

Any face-up card in the tableau may be moved to another tableau pile where it fits, bringing all cards on top of it with it, even if those cards are not in sequence — just as in Yukon.

Any card can fill an empty slot in the tableau.

Stock:

The stock is made up of leftover cards.

When you click on the stock, a card is dealt to the top of each tableau pile. There is only one pass through the stock.