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Untangle two full decks across six long columns and eight foundations, building freely down the tableau before you sort everything home in strict suit order.
Taking Silk Solitaire is a two-deck expansion of Thirty Six, and it stretches that little game across a much wider board. Where Thirty Six deals a tidy square of thirty-six cards, Taking Silk hands you six long tableau columns and eight foundations to fill, so the sorting work runs deeper and the pay-off feels earned.
The name nods to the old British phrase for a barrister rising to Queen's Counsel, a promotion marked by a change into silk robes. It is a fitting label for a game that is all about steady advancement, one card at a time, from a crowded opening toward eight completed suits.
Because you build down in the tableau without worrying about suit, early moves come easily and the board loosens quickly. The challenge arrives later, when two full decks must be untangled and fed to the foundations in strict suit order. With a single pass through the stock and no redeals, planning your waste plays matters as much as your tableau shuffling. Skilled play wins a healthy share of deals.
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How to play Taking Silk Solitaire
Layout:
8 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Ace, wrapping from King back to Ace as needed until every card of the two decks is placed. Completed cards move here automatically when a play is available.
6 tableau piles: Build down regardless of suit. At the start of the game, each pile is dealt four face-up cards.
Stock: Click to deal one card at a time to the waste. There are no redeals.
Waste: The top card of the waste is available for play to the tableau or foundations.
Foundation:
There are eight foundation piles, enough to hold all eight suits across the two decks.
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, starting with an Ace. When a pile reaches the King it wraps around, so a full pile runs from Ace up through King.
Cards cannot be taken back from the foundation after they have been placed.
Tableau:
Six tableau piles are dealt four face-up cards each. Every card is visible from the start.
A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower than the pile's current top card, regardless of suit, so any 6 fits on any 7.
You may move a properly ordered group of cards from one tableau pile to another as a single unit, since sequences are built and moved without regard to suit.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card can be played onto the foundations or onto any other tableau pile.
Stock and waste:
The remaining cards after the deal make up the stock.
When you click on the stock, one card is dealt to the waste. There is only one pass through the stock, so use each deal carefully.
The top card of the waste can be played to a tableau pile or a foundation.
