FreeCell Rules

The different piles

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There are three different types of piles in FreeCell Solitaire. They are:

• The Free Cells: The four piles in the upper left corner.
• The Foundations: The four piles in the upper right corner.
• The Tableau: The eight piles that make up the main table.

The setup

The Tableau piles are numbered from 1 to 8, piles 1-4 start with 7 cards each, piles 5-8 with 6 cards each. The Foundations and Free Cells are empty.

The objective

To win FreeCell, you must get all the cards onto the Foundations. The Foundations are ordered by suit and rank, each Foundation has one suit and you must put the cards onto them in the order Ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jack Queen King. To do that you can use the moves described below:

Allowed moves

• Move one or more cards from one Tableau pile to another. You can move the top card of a pile on the Tableau onto another Tableau pile, if that pile's top card is one higher than the moved card and in a different color. For example, you could move a red 6 onto a black 7. If the top cards on a Tableau pile are ordered, e.g. you have red 6, black 5, red 4 as the top cards, then you can click the red 6 and move all of them together onto another Tableau pile that has a black 7 as its top card. HOWEVER, there is a limitation to how many ordered cards you can move together. The number of cards you can move together is basically the number of empty free cells and empty tableaus + 1. So, if you have 2 free cells empty you can move 3 cards together. If you have all 4 free cells empty you can move 5 cards. If you have 3 free cells and 4 empty tableaus you can move 8 cards together. Moving many cards together is basically just a convenience the game provides. In the strictest sense you should always move one at a time, but if you have 4 ordered cards and 3 free cells then you could trivially move the top 3 ordered cards to the free cells, then move the fourth card and then move the 3 cards from the free cells back onto the fourth card. So, for convenience the game allows you to move n+1 cards together, where n is the number of free cells.
  If you have an empty Tableau pile then you can move any card there.
• Move a single card onto a Free Cell. You can always move the top card of any Tableau Pile, Free Cell or Foundation onto a Free Cell if it's empty. Free Cell's can only hold a single card at a time.
• Move a card from a Free Cell. You can move a card from a Free Cell onto a Foundation if it's in the same suit and one higher than the Foundation's top card. Or you can move a card from a Free Cell onto a Tableau pile if the card is one lower and in a different color than the Tableau pile's top card. E.g. you could move a red 5 from a Free Cell onto a Tableau pile where the current top card was a black 6.
• You can move a Tableau card onto the Foundations. You can either drag the cards onto the Foundation, or just double click it and then it will go there by itself. When the Free Cells are empty and all cards on the Tableau are arranged in 4 piles and each of the piles has been ordered in descending order with alternating red/black cards then the Tableau will clear itself, since at that point you are guaranteed to win the game.
• You can Undo as many times as you like. The game offers unlimited undos. Each Undo counts as a new move though, so if you're trying to win the game in as few moves as possible you should be careful about how many undos you use.

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Time and Moves

The game counts the moves you make, and measures the time it takes to finish the game, so you can compete against your previous best games if you want. Currently this data is not stored anywhere, in the future I might add some kind of high scores.

About FreeCell

Hi. My name is Einar Egilsson and I made this online verson of FreeCell. FreeCell is the second solitaire game I create, before that I created Klondike (or 'classic' solitaire) and I've also made a few card games like Hearts, Spades and Whist.

If you have any questions, comments or requests for other solitaire games you can send them to admin@cardgames.io or tweet at me @cardgames_io. If you have any errors or problems when playing the game please include which browser you're using when you email me, it makes figuring out the problem a lot easier :)

Many thanks go to Nicu Buculei, who created the excellent playing card images that I use for the game.

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There are a couple of good sources of rules for solitaire games.

First, there is the rules to the games in my Pretty Good Solitaire game. These include all the games I have invented plus classic games.

For rules to over 900 different solitaire games, see the Pretty Good Solitaire help file.

Another source is the Solitaire Central Rulebook, which has many games from other sources.

Solitaire Central Rules Site

Below is a selection of rules of some classic games and some of the most popular games that I invented.

Rules to Classic Games

Klondike The standard 7 pile solitaire game

FreeCell The game that can nearly always be won

Spider The difficult but addicting game

Golf The build up or down game

Pyramid Add pairs to 13

Eight Off The FreeCell variation

Cruel The popular game

Yukon Move groups of cards

Scorpion Play the Spider variant

Canfield Play the demon game

Baker's Dozen Play the 1 deck strategy game

Busy Aces Play the simple Forty Thieves variant

Sea Towers Also known as SeaHaven Towers

Gaps Arrange four rows of cards

Forty Thieves Play the classic 2 deck game

Double Klondike Play the 2 deck Klondike game

Penguin Play the FreeCell/Eight Off variation

Spiderette Play the 1 deck Spider variation

Aces Up Remove lower ranked cards

Beleaguered Castle Play the open strategy game

EastHaven Play the classic one deck game

Interchange Play the hard 2 deck game

La Belle Lucie Play the classic fan type game

Rouge et Noir A Spider type game of strategy

Auld Lang Syne Play the simple but hard to win game

Fourteen Out Add cards to 14

Osmosis Play rank by rank

Russian Solitaire Play the Yukon variation

Agnes Bernauer Play the Klondike variation

Virginia Reel Play rows from 2,3, and 4s

Baker's Game Play the FreeCell variation

Australian Patience Play the Klondike/Yukon variation

Vertical Play the simple matching game

Acquaintance Play the Auld Lang Syne variation

Three Shuffles and a Draw Play the La Belle Lucie variation

Alaska Play the Yukon variation

Thirteens Play the easy addition game

Black Hole Build on the Black Hole

Terrace Also known as Queen of Italy

Josephine Play the Forty Thieves variation

Rank and File Play the Forty Thieves variation

Diavolo Play the Rouge et Noir variation

Names Of Different Solitaire Games

Storehouse Play the Canfield variation

Monte Carlo Play the matching game

King Albert Play the challenging game

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Mrs Mop Play the Spider variation

Zerline Play the Beleaguered Castle variation

Moving Left Play the unique Klondike variation

Rules to Games invented by Thomas Warfield

Aces and Kings The challenging 2 deck game

Demons and Thieves Play the double tableau game

Three's Company Play the Busy Aces variation

Triple Klondike Three deck Klondike version

Lady Jane Play the Klondike variation

Antares Play the FreeCell/Scorpion cross

Different Solitaire Games Pdf

Tarantella An original game

Gold Rush An original Klondike variation

Agnes Three An Agnes Bernauer variation

Apophis Play the Pyramid variation

Family Plot Play the challenging variation of The Plot

Alliance Play the Matrimony variation

FreeCell Duplex Play the FreeCell variation