How is Solitaire Played?
Solitaire, a single-player card game, has many variants. In the UK, solitaire is known as patience, a good name for such a card game. Regardless of the variations, solitaire is a card game that requires the player to return randomly dealt cards to their own suit in numbered order. Solitaire is popular both as a table top game using real playing cards and a computer game using virtual playing cards.
Solitaire, a single-player card game, has many variants. In the UK, solitaire is known as patience, a good name for such a card game. Regardless of the variations, solitaire is a card game that requires the player to return randomly dealt cards to their own suit in numbered order. Solitaire is popular both as a table top game using real playing cards and a computer game using virtual playing cards. Solitaire begins by shuffling a single deck of cards. The cards are then dealt out in a prescribed order, usually to form seven piles, called tableau. The cards are dealt out left to right with the first card dealt face up to form the first pile, followed by six cards face down. The deal continues with a face-up card on the second pile, followed by five cards face down, and so forth until each of the seven piles has a card facing up. The remaining cards are placed in the “stock pile” to the left above the tableau.
