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Two decks, seven flat columns dealt face-up: plan every Klondike-style move before you draw a single stock card.

Roosevelt Solitaire is a two-deck Klondike relative that trades the familiar staggered opening for a flat, fully open board. Seven tableau columns are each dealt four cards, every one face-up from the first move, so there is nothing hidden to turn over and nothing to guess. What you see at the start is the whole picture, which makes Roosevelt a planning game as much as a patience game.

You build the tableau down in alternating colors, exactly as in Klondike, but with two decks in play there are twice as many cards to route toward the eight suited foundations that run from Ace to King. When you lift a run, it moves as a descending block regardless of the suits underneath, which keeps long sequences intact as you shift them between columns.

The stock deals one card at a time to the waste for a single pass, with no redeal, so every turn counts and the order you empty columns matters. Emptied columns are valuable open ground here: any card may be placed on a vacant column, giving you room to unpack tangled runs. With everything face-up and only one pass to work with, Roosevelt rewards reading the board carefully before you commit.

You already know the classic Solitaire — Roosevelt just deals it face-up from the start. For more of that second deck, go find Double Klondike Solitaire.

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How to play Roosevelt Solitaire

Layout:

8 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Ace to King. Cards move to the foundations automatically when they are ready.

7 tableau piles: Each column is dealt four face-up cards. Build down in alternating colors.

Stock: Click to deal one card at a time to the waste. There is only one pass through the stock.

Waste: The top card of the waste is playable.

Foundation:

There are eight foundation piles, four for each deck.

A card can be added to a foundation only if it's one rank higher than the pile's current top card and of the same suit, starting with an Ace and finishing on a King. Cards that are ready move to the foundations automatically.

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

Tableau:

Seven tableau piles of four cards each. Every card is dealt face-up.

A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower and the opposite color of the pile's current top card, so the only card that fits on a red 8 is a black 7. A group of cards in a valid descending run may be moved together regardless of the suits below the top card.

Any card may be placed on an empty tableau column, so vacant columns are useful landing spots for rearranging runs.

Stock and waste:

The remaining cards make up the stock, and turned cards go to the waste.

When you click the stock, one card is dealt to the waste. You get only one pass through the stock, with no redeal.

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