It typically has between 7 and 10 piles, but there can be less (e.g.

If one deck is used, there are typically 4 piles, and if two decks are used, then there are typically 8 piles.

Cards from the reserve can mostly be moved one at a time to the tableau or the foundations.

Solitaire games in which all cards are visible (face-up) are called open games.

If a game has face-down cards, e.g.

Klondike, it is called a closed game.

In most solitaire games, the objective is to move all cards to the foundation, arranging them in runs from Ace to King of the same suit.

Often, cards are arranged in reverse order (from King to Ace) on the tableau first.

This step in between is known as packing, so games using this process are called packers (while also being builders).

An additional distinction is made between games with a reserve (reserved builders and reserved packers) or without (simple builders and simple packers).

Games that dont use building or packing are called non-builders.

How cards can be paired differs between games, but often evolves around summing up to a certain amount (e.g.

Pyramid, Fourteen Out) or finding pairs (Nestor).

Despite not involving pairing, Golf Solitaire and Tri Peaks Solitaire also belong to this family.

The cards in the tableau piles are laid out in a fan, resulting in the name of these type of games.

Because of its simple rules, many variations exist that belong to this family of games.

Because it is an open solitaire game, winning a FreeCell game is all about skill and less about luck.

Other games in the family of FreeCell games have variations in the way the tableau is built (e.g.

Bakers Game), the number of free cells (e.g.

Eight Off), the number of tableau piles (e.g.

Sea Towers), or the number of decks (e.g.

Double FreeCell).

Games in this family often have a similar starting deal (one card in the first pile, two cards in the second pile, ).

The variations might have different building rules, extra fields (e.g.

Depending on the game, these completed sequences are removed from the tableau.

In solitaire games of other families, only correctly ordered sequences can be moved.

Despite all the existing variants, Klondike is still the most played solitaire game, balancing skill and luck.

The goal is to make 8 in-suit sequences from King to Ace in the tableau, which will be removed when completed.

The goal is to remove all these cards from the pyramid by pairing cards that add up to 13.

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