Solitaire is a card game, also called patience which makes the player to return cards dealt randomly to their own suit in the order of numbers. It is a popular table top game with physical playing cards and also a computer game played with virtual cards.
Playing technique
After shuffling a deck of cards, the cards are dealt out from left to right in a certain order forming seven piles known as tableau. In each pile the first card is face up with the rest six, face down. Dealing goes on with a face-up card on the second pile which is followed by five cards face down. This continues till every pile bears a card facing up. The rest of the cards get placed to the left over the tableau in what is called a ‘stock pile’.
After cards are dealt, the game begins when the player starts arranging any of the face up cards aptly. The cards are moved to form stacks in such a manner that alternating colors begin with one of the four Kings. Thus a Queen of spades and be placed above a King of Hearts or may be diamonds, but never over a King of clubs or even spades.
How the game proceeds
After the initial plays are made, the player starts drawing cards from the pile lying on the top left corner of the playing field. Variations occur when the third card is turned over from the pile. The card lying under it can only be used if this third card can be played. In case, this is unable to be played, three more cards get turned over. The game continues until the time when no more moves can be made; or in other words, when the mission of the game gets fully achieved.
Object of the game
A new area of play above the tableau gets created, called foundation when an Ace is encountered in the game. Here each of the four Aces begins a foundation pile. The chief objective of the game is to move all the cards to their specific foundation color by suit which must ascend chronologically from Aces to Kings.
