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Kiev crosses Yukon's freewheeling piles with Spider's suit-only builds: deal fresh cards to all seven columns at once, then hunt for complete King-to-Ace runs.

Kiev Solitaire is a Ukrainian relative of Yukon and Spider, dealt as a tidy rectangle of seven columns with four cards apiece. The face-down cards beneath each column give the game its bite: you cannot see what you are working toward until the cards above are cleared away, so early moves are as much about exposure as about tidiness.

Building runs down in suit, but there is no wrap from Ace to King, which keeps the sequences honest and the endgame tense. You can lift any face-up group in one motion, Yukon-style, regardless of whether it forms a neat sequence — a freedom that lets you shuffle whole clusters of cards to reach the buried ones underneath.

When you are stuck, the stock deals a fresh card to every column at once, in a single pass. That one deal can rescue a stalled position or bury it further, so timing it well is the heart of the game. Only complete King-to-Ace suit runs go to the foundations, which makes Kiev a genuine test of long-range planning.

Sevastopol Solitaire and Dnieper Solitaire are two solitaire games that are closely related to this one.

From here, Spider Solitaire is the natural next stop, the suit-building foundation Kiev borrows from.

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How to play Kiev Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Build up in the same suit from Ace to King. Only a complete thirteen-card run may be sent home.

7 tableau piles: Four cards are dealt to each pile, with only the top card face-up. Build down in the same suit.

Stock: Click to deal one card face-up to every tableau pile at once. There is only one pass through the stock.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles, one per suit.

A pile fills in one move: a complete Ace-to-King run in a single suit slides over as a unit rather than being built card by card. The top card of a foundation can still be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.

The game is won when every card has reached the foundations as four full suit sequences.

Tableau:

Arranged as seven columns of four cards each. The three lower cards in every column are dealt face-down, and the top card is face-up.

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 an 8 of spades is a 7 of spades. There is no wrap, so nothing may be built onto an Ace.

Any face-up card, together with every card resting on top of it, may be lifted and moved as a group in the Yukon manner — the cards beneath do not need to form an ordered sequence. When a face-down card becomes exposed, it is turned face-up automatically.

Empty columns may be filled with any available card or group.

Stock and waste:

The remaining cards after the deal make up the stock; there is no separate waste pile.

Each click deals one card face-up onto every tableau pile. You only get a single pass through the stock, so use it wisely.