Play Black Hole Solitaire Online for Free (No Signup Required)
Climb or descend one foundation with Ace and King as neighbors, drawing from seventeen three-card fans, for an 80% win rate.
This is a version of Golf without a stock, similar to All in a Row. David Parlett created it, and the single foundation is the whole game: it climbs or falls a card at a time, and Ace and King count as neighbors, so you can wrap from one end to the other. The rest of the deck sits face-up across seventeen small tableau piles of three, waiting for a spot to open up. That single foundation, with Ace and King wrapping as neighbors, is what keeps this simple: playing one deck, you'll win around 80% of the time, and skill carries the result more than luck does.
Other solitaire games comparable to this one include Binary Star Solitaire, Four Leaf Clovers Solitaire, and All in a Row Solitaire.
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How to play Black Hole Solitaire
Layout:
Black Hole: Start with the Ace and work your way up or down, regardless of suit. Ace and King count as neighbors, so the sequence wraps around.
17 Fans: The top card is now playable to the Black Hole. At the start of the game, each pile is given three cards.
Foundation:
There is one foundation pile.
The foundation pile is handed an ace of hearts at first.
A card can be added to the foundation pile only if it's one rank higher or one rank lower than the pile's current top card, regardless of suit, so any jack or king of any suit fits on a queen. Wrap on the foundation to play an ace on a king or a king on an ace.
The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.
Tableau:
Seventeen tableau piles of three cards each. Every card is dealt face-up.
You can't build sequences on the tableau; cards just sit there until you can play them.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card can be played onto the foundation.
The tableau's empty spaces may not be filled.
Only one card may be moved at a time; sequences are not permitted.
