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Scorpion's stinging tail-first dig, plus four free cells to catch you when a column gets ugly. Every card's dealt from the jump, so it's all skill, no stock to blame.

Scorpion Head Solitaire is Scorpion with a helping hand. The parent game asks you to untangle seven columns by building down in suit, dragging any card along with everything piled on top of it, no matter how out of order that buried run may be. Scorpion Head keeps that stinging tail-first challenge and adds four free cells, giving you a small pocket of breathing room to park cards while you dig.

The whole deck is dealt at the start: three columns of eight fully face-up, and four columns of seven with four cards hidden beneath three visible ones. There is no stock to fall back on, so every card you need is already on the table, waiting to be freed. The free cells make the difference between a hopeless snarl and a clever escape, since a single well-timed parking spot can unlock a face-down card you could never reach otherwise.

Building is strictly in suit, descending, and a completed thirteen-card suit from King to Ace is what fills the four foundations. Emptied columns accept only a King, so the endgame often turns on whether you can clear a column at just the right moment. Read the board before you move, and use those four cells sparingly.

If you enjoy Scorpion Head, try the classic Scorpion Solitaire, its mirror-image cousin Scorpion Tail Solitaire, or the two-deck Double Scorpion Solitaire.

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How to play Scorpion Head Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Ace to King. Only a complete Ace-to-King run may be moved to a foundation.

4 free cells: Each cell holds a single card. Park a card here to clear the way, then bring it back when it fits the tableau or a foundation.

7 tableau piles: Build down in suit. Any group of cards may be lifted and moved together, whatever order the cards inside it are in. Only a King may fill an empty column. The whole deck is dealt at the start.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles, one for each suit.

A foundation is completed by placing a full, in-order sequence of a suit onto it, running from Ace all the way up to King. Because only complete suits move here, the foundations fill late in the game rather than card by card.

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

Tableau:

Seven tableau piles are dealt from a single deck. The first three columns hold eight cards, all face-up. The remaining four columns hold seven cards, with four dealt face-down beneath three face-up cards.

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 clubs is a 7 of clubs.

Any card may be moved together with every card stacked on top of it, even when that group is not in a valid sequence. This is the signature Scorpion move, and it lets you shift a buried card by carrying its whole tail along.

Only a King, along with whatever sits on top of it, may be moved into an empty tableau column.

Free cells:

There are four free cells, each able to hold one card at a time.

Move any accessible card into an empty cell to set it aside, then play it back onto the tableau or a foundation when a legal spot appears. Used well, the cells are the key to loosening the tightest tangles.