Russian Solitaire Online: Play Free and Learn the Rules

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Russian Solitaire is Yukon built down in suit. All 52 cards are dealt into seven columns, 21 of them face down, and there is no stock. You can move any face-up card with every card on top of it, in order or not, but a card may only go on the next higher card of its own suit. That one rule makes it one of the hardest one-deck solitaires. Choose solo practice, an online race against a bot or an online race against a player.

Mobile gameplay: Russian Solitaire

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How to play

1. The deal is Yukon’s: seven columns of 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 cards. The first column holds one face-up card; every other column has one to six face-down cards under five face-up ones.
2. Build down in the same suit: only the Eight of spades can go on the Nine of spades.
3. Any face-up card moves with all the cards on top of it, in order or not. Only the bottom card of the group has to fit.
4. Only a King, with whatever is on top of it, can fill an empty column. Uncovered cards turn face up.
5. Build the foundations up by suit from Ace to King. Cards there stay there; you win by sending all 52 home.

Example

The Five of hearts has a Jack and a Three lying on it, and the Six of hearts is the last card of another column. Move the Five, the Jack and the Three onto the Six: the move is legal because the Five fits the Six, and the card under the Five is uncovered.

Playing tip

Before you move, find where each suit’s low cards are buried. A card has only one place to go in the whole deck, the next card up in its suit, so a move that buries that card can block a whole suit.

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