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Two full decks pour onto one classic staircase, and you get just two passes through a towering stock to fill all eight foundations.
Steps Solitaire is Klondike doubled — two full decks played on the classic layout. The name fits the picture on the table: the seven tableau piles are dealt one to seven cards in the familiar staircase, but because only 28 of the 104 cards land there, a towering 76-card stock waits above the steps. Eight foundation piles must be built, one Ace-to-King run for each suit of each deck.
Where Double Klondike stretches two decks across nine columns, Steps keeps the original seven. That leaves far more of the pack buried in the stock, so the game becomes a race to open up the tableau before your stock runs dry — you only get two passes through it.
The game is medium in difficulty. Across two decks, sharp planning matters, but what the stock hands you still calls a real share of each result.
If the double-deck scale is what hooked you, Double Klondike Solitaire gives you more of that same idea.
Steps moves at a slower, more deliberate pace than original Solitaire, so switch back to that when you want something quicker.
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How to play Steps Solitaire
Layout:
8 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Ace to King.
7 tableau piles: Build down in alternating colors. Cards in descending alternating-color sequence can be moved as a group. Only a King or a group led by a King can fill an empty space. At the start of the game, the piles are dealt one to seven cards; only the top card is shown.
Stock: Click to flip over cards one at a time to the waste. The waste can be recycled once, for two passes in total.
Waste: The top card is playable.
Foundation:
There are eight foundation piles — with two decks in play, each suit is built twice.
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, so the only card that fits on an 8 of spades is a 9 of spades. Each pile begins with an Ace and ends with a King.
If you find yourself stuck, the top card of a foundation may be moved back to the tableau.
Tableau:
Seven tableau piles are dealt one to seven cards. The top card of each pile is dealt face-up, while the remaining cards are dealt face-down and turn over as they become uncovered.
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 cards that fit on a 9 of diamonds are the 8 of spades and 8 of clubs.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card are free to be played onto the foundation or any other tableau pile. Cards in descending alternating-color order can be moved together as a group.
Only a King, or a valid group of cards led by a King, may fill an empty slot in the tableau.
Stock and waste:
There is one waste pile, and the remaining seventy-six cards make up the stock.
When you click on the stock, one card is dealt face-up to the waste. Once the stock is exhausted, click the empty stock to turn the waste over and go through it again — but only once, for two passes in total.
The top card of the waste can be played to the tableau or the foundations.
