Play Floradora Solitaire Online for Free (No Signup Required)
Six tableau piles of six cards, eight queen-capped foundations, and a lone pile for all eight kings: one pass through the deck decides your luck.
Floradora Solitaire takes its name from Florodora, the musical comedy that packed theatres in London and New York around 1900 and whose six-girl sextette was briefly the most famous chorus line in the world. The game remembers them in its deal: six tableau piles of six cards each, making it a two-deck expansion of Thirty Six.
Two quirks set it apart. The eight main foundations climb in suit only as far as the queen, because every king is banished to a single pile of its own that must collect all eight of them. And since only one card may be moved at a time and there is just a single pass through a 68-card stock, most of the game arrives through the waste — watch each card as it turns. With two decks and just one pass through the stock, that early deal decides almost everything: luck over skill, and wins stay rare.
Thirty Six Solitaire and Taking Silk Solitaire sit nearby if you want to keep playing.
After Floradora, the original Solitaire is the natural next stop.
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How to play Floradora Solitaire
Layout:
8 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Ace to Queen; kings are excluded.
1 kings pile: Collects all eight Kings, in any order of suits.
6 tableau piles: Build down regardless of suit. At the start of the game, each pile is dealt six face-up cards.
Stock: Click to flip over cards one at a time to the waste. There are no redeals.
Waste: The top card is playable.
Foundation:
There are eight main foundation piles and one kings pile.
A card can be added to a main foundation pile only if it's one rank higher and the same suit as the pile's current top card, so the only card that fits on an 8 of hearts is a 9 of hearts. Each pile begins with an ace and is complete at the queen, twelve cards in all.
The kings pile accepts kings of any suit and nothing else; all eight kings finish the game stacked there together.
Cards that become playable are sent to the foundations automatically, and they cannot be taken back after they have been placed.
Tableau:
Six tableau piles of six cards each, all dealt face-up.
A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower than the pile's current top card, regardless of suit, so any 7 fits on an 8 of spades.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card are free to be played onto the foundations or any other tableau pile.
Any card can fill an empty slot in the tableau.
Only one card may be moved at a time; sequences are not permitted.
Stock and waste:
There is one waste pile and the remaining 68 cards comprise the stock.
When you click on the stock, one card from the stock is dealt to the waste. There is only one pass through the stock.
The top card of the waste can be played to the tableau or foundations.
