Solitaire

1. Move all 52 cards to the 4 foundations at the top right: one pile for each suit, from the ace up to the king.
2. Build the 7 columns down in alternating colors. A red 6 goes on a black 7, and a black 6 on a red 7.
3. Move a face-up card with all the cards on it. A face-down card that you uncover turns face up.
4. Only a king, or a run that starts with a king, can go into an empty column.
5. Tap the stock at the top left to turn cards onto the waste. The top card of the waste can go on a column or a foundation. When the stock is empty, tap it to turn the waste over and go through it again, as often as you like.

• Phone and tablet: drag a card where you want it, or tap it to send it to its best place, a foundation first.
• Mouse: drag, or click a card. A double click moves it once.
• Keyboard: the arrow keys move the blue ring. Enter sends the card to its best place, and Space picks cards up and puts them down. D turns the stock, U undoes a move, and H shows a hint.
• A card that no other card can still need goes up to its foundation by itself. When every card is face up, the game finishes itself.

Draw 1 turns one card at a time, so every card of the stock comes up on each pass. Draw 3 turns three, and only the top one can play, so some cards stay out of reach until the cards above them move. Draw 3 is the harder game.

Not every deal can be won. Even a program that sees every face-down card cannot win about 18% of draw 3 deals, a result from a 2019 study by Charlie Blake and Ian Gent. With Winnable deals on, each new game is one that our own solver won with your draw: 1485 deals for draw 1 and 1291 for draw 3. You still have to find the way, and a wrong move can lose it. Undo has no limit.

• Turn over face-down cards first. Play from the column with the most face-down cards.
• Empty a column only when a king is ready to go there.
• When a card fits on two columns, pick the move that uncovers a face-down card.
• Before you turn the stock, look for a move on the table. A new card is easier to use when the columns have room.
• Press Hint when you are stuck. It shows a useful move, and pressing it again shows the next one.