Online Free Spider Solitaire Card Game

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Here's how to play Klondike.

The Object of the Game

To uncover the four aces and build entire ascending sequences in suit on them; that is Ace, 2, 3, and so on, up to King.

The Klondike Layout

Creating the Tableau - Deal a row of seven cards left to right, turning the first card face-up, and the subsequent six face-down. Continue this pattern only on the face-down piles, each time dealing the first card face-up and the rest face-down, until there are seven piles, ranging from one card (at left) to seven (at right), all with their top cards turned up. This is the tableau. To release as many cards as possible in the tableau to find the aces, you'll build descending sequences on the face-up cards, in alternating colour only (e.g. 7 of Clubs, 6 of Hearts, 5 of Spades, 4 of Hearts, etc.