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Every tableau card is dealt face up, but you build down by color and only same-suit runs travel together, so seeing it all won't make winning easy: about a 50% win rate.

Whitehead Solitaire plays like Klondike with one big change: every tableau card is dealt face-up, so nothing stays hidden. You still build down the tableau in sequence, but by matching colors instead of alternating them, and a run of cards can only move together if every card in it shares one suit. That suit restriction is what keeps the game from being as easy as seeing every card might suggest.

It's medium difficulty, with roughly a 50% chance of winning on a single deck. Luck and skill both play a part.

Whitehead is close kin to Saratoga Solitaire, which also deals the whole tableau face-up but keeps Klondike's usual alternating colors. If you'd rather play the standard game, the original Solitaire is here too.

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Have a good time playing!

How to play Whitehead Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Build up from Ace to King in the same suit.

7 tableau piles: Build down by color. A run of cards can move together only if it's all one suit. Any card, or a legal run of cards, can fill an empty pile. To start, the first pile gets one card, the second gets two, and so on up to the seventh.

Stock: Click to turn over one card at a time to the waste. There are no redeals.

Waste: The top card is always available to play on a foundation or the tableau.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles.

Any ace can be placed on an empty foundation pile.

A card can join a foundation pile only if it's one rank higher and the same suit as the pile's top card. So the only card that can go on a 6 of diamonds is the 7 of diamonds.

The top card of a foundation pile can be played back onto the tableau if a spot will take it.

Tableau:

There are seven tableau piles: one card in the first, two in the second, three in the third, and so on. Every card is dealt face-up.

A card can join a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower and the same color as the pile's top card. So the cards that can go on a 10 of clubs are the 9 of spades or 9 of clubs.

Any tableau card that isn't covered by another card is free to move, onto the foundation or another tableau pile.

Any card can fill an empty tableau pile.

A run of cards can only be moved from one tableau pile to another if every card in it is the same suit.

Stock and waste:

The remaining cards form the stock, with a single waste pile.

Clicking the stock deals one card to the waste. You get just one pass through the stock, there's no redeal.

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