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Deal two decks across six tableau piles and eight Four-starting foundations, then build down regardless of suit, the loosest rule yet. Medium difficulty, 45% win rate.

Fours Up Solitaire is Thomas Warfield's fourth game in a series that began with the classic games Busy Aces Solitaire and Deuces Solitaire, by way of Three's Company Solitaire. Each one trims the tableau down and loosens the building rules a bit more, and Fours Up is the loosest of all: the tableau builds down regardless of suit, which makes it easier than its predecessors. Two decks deal one card to each of six tableau piles and a four to each of the eight foundations. It's a medium game, with a 45% chance of winning, and it takes a mix of skill and luck to pull off.

It's part of a whole family of these games built the same way with a different starting rank: Penta, Sixes and Sevens, Eights Down, Cast Out Nines, Dimes, and Jacks in the Box all follow the same pattern.

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How to play Fours Up Solitaire

Layout:

8 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Fours to King, wrapping to Ace, Two, Three. The Fours are dealt to each pile at the start of the game.

6 tableau piles: Build down regardless of suit; a four is as low as a pile goes, so aces, twos, and threes never continue a run. Any run of cards in descending order can be moved together, regardless of suit. Any card can fill an empty slot. At the start of the game, each pile is dealt one card face-up.

Stock: Click to deal 1 card at a time to the waste pile. There are no redeals.

Waste: The top card can be played on the foundations or tableau.

Foundation:

There are eight foundation piles, sharing the two decks between them.

Each foundation pile starts with a four.

A card can be added to a foundation pile only if it's one rank higher and the same suit as the pile's current top card, wrapping from king back around to ace, two, and three, so the only card that fits on a J of clubs is a Q of clubs. Each pile holds all 13 ranks of one suit once it's full.

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

Tableau:

Six tableau piles start with one card 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 and of any suit, so the only card that fits on a ten is a nine. A four is as low as the sequence goes: aces, twos, and threes never continue a tableau run.

Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card are free to be played onto the foundation or any other tableau pile.

Any card can fill an empty slot in the tableau.

Regardless of suit, a whole run of cards in descending order can be moved from one tableau pile to another at once.

Stock and waste:

There is one waste pile and the remaining cards comprise the stock.

When you click on the stock, one card from the stock is dealt to the waste. There can only be one pass through the stock.

The top card of the waste can be played to the tableau or foundation.