Online Solitaire

How to play Solitaire Turn Three?

This summary is for all of you who have played the game before but need a refresher on how to play. If you're a beginner, check out my guide on how to play Solitaire, complete with illustrations and a video tutorial.The game's goal is to move all cards from the tableau onto the foundation piles. If you manage to do that, you've won!The game consists of 4 main areas:The tableau: Where most of the game takes place.

How hard is Solitaire?

Harder than it looks, if I'm honest. Here's how it tends to go on this site:Turn 3 is the tricky one, won about 27% of the time across 296 million gamesTurn 1 is much friendlier, with just under half of 100 million games wonSkill counts for far more here than luckChoose a Winnable deal and you'll always have a way through

How is Turn 1 different from Turn 3?

The only real difference is how many cards you flip from the stock at a time. In Turn 1 you flip one card, so every card gets its turn on the way through. In Turn 3 you flip three at once and only the top one is playable, so a good chunk of the stock stays out of reach. That's what makes Turn 3 the harder version, and it's the one this page deals by default.

How do you set up the game?

The tableau piles are numbered from one to seven. The first pile has one card on it, and the second has two, and so on. The top card on each tableau is turned face up, and the cards below are turned face down. The cards left after being moved to the tableau are placed face-down on the stock. Both the waste and the foundations start without any cards on them.

How does scoring work?

I use the traditional scoring that you know from the Microsoft Windows™ games. It goes like this:Waste to tableau: 5 pointsWaste to foundation: 10 pointsTableau to foundation: 10 pointsTurn over tableau card: 5 pointsFoundation to tableau: -15 points