Freecell Solitaire

Written by Steve Moore

Overview

Freecell Solitaire is a solitaire game played with the standard 52 card deck. The object is to arrange cards of the same suit from ace to king.

Rules

The board is setup with eight stacks of cards, four “freecells”, and four home stacks. The goal is to move all cards to the home stacks in ascending order from ace to king of the same suit. Cards are placed one at a time in order on the home stacks. The eight stacks of cards are dealt with the first four stacks containing seven cards and the last four contains size cards. All cards in the eight stacks are dealt face up. Cards can be moved between the stacks by placing red cards on black cards in descending order from king to ace. But only one card can be moved to a stack or freecell at a time. A card can also be played on the home stack, if it is an ace or the next card in ascending order of a suit in one of the home stacks. Any card can be placed in an empty freecell or an empty stack. Play will continue until all moves are exhausted or until all cards are moved to the home stacks and the game is won.

Scoring

A point is scored when a card is moved to one of the home stacks. A total of 52 points can be scored, one for each card in the deck. The current score is indicated in the status bar at the bottom of the game window.

Game Play

Cards that are movable will be indicated when the mouse is over them with the open hand icon. Cards with the open hand icon displayed over them can be dragged and dropped to another stack or clicked to move them to another stack. Hints of possible moves are available from the menu select Control->Hint.