FreeCell Solitaire/Patience rules for FreeCell
Object of the game
Move all the cards to the foundations
Deck
52 cards - One standard deck
Foundation
- Four foundations built up by suit from Ace to King
- Once on the foundation, cards may not be moved
Tableau
- Eight tableau columns built down by alternate colors
- The top card of each column is available for play on the foundations, another tableau column or the cells
- Supermove* allows a group of cards in sequence (down by alternate colors) to be moved as a unit to another tableau column
- An empty space may be filled with any available card or pile
Cell
- Four cells, initially empty
- Storage location for any card. Only One card may be placed on each pile until needed
- The top card of each pile is available for play on the foundations, the tableau columns or another cell
Supermove
Technically, only one card may be moved at a time, but since we have implemented Supermove (also called a Powermove), we allow you to move a sequence of cards in one move. Supermove is just a shortcut that uses the empty tableau columns and free cells as efficiently as possible, to ensure you can move the maximum number of cards in one move and save a lot of time. You can achieve the same result by temporarily moving the extra cards into the empty tableau columns and free cells by single card moves. The number of free cells/tableau columns determines how many tableau cards can be moved as a group.
