You can’t move cards around the tableau into any sequences. The only moves you can make are pairing cards from the tableau with waste pile cards. However, you can only cycle through the stock pile once, or else the game is over. In this instance, you can flip over the next stock pile card to create a new waste pile card. You may get stuck with a waste pile card that you can’t pair with a card on the tableau. The tableau card you pair then becomes the top card of the waste pile. For example, if a Jack of Clubs is the top card of the waste pile, you can pair it with either a 10 of any suit or a Quen of any suit in the tableau.

You can only pair the top waste pile card with tableau cards that are one rank higher or lower.

Additionally, when you pair a card from the tableau with the top card in the waste pile, the tableau cards become the new top card of the waste pile, the one that needs to be paired next.

Waste pile: Cards flipped up from the stock pile become the top card in the waste pile.

The first card of the stock pile is flipped up to begin a waste pile, leaving you with only 16 stock pile cards.

Stock pile: The remaining cards are placed face-down and spread out horizontally at the bottom of the tableau.

Each column has 5 cards, and all cards are face-up and overlapping slightly so you can see the ranks of all the cards in the tableau.

Tableau: You need to clear all of the cards in the 7 column tableau.

Golf Solitaire has three basic piles that you use to play the game: ObjectiveĬlear the tableau of cards in the fewest moves possible by pairing the top card from the waste pile with one from the tableau that is one rank higher or lower. You use one deck of cards in this game, and you only have to remove the cards in the 7 column tableau to win. Golf Solitaire has you move all the cards from the tableau to the waste pile to win the game, unlike the traditional Klondike Solitaire where you arrange cards into the foundation piles.

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