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Solitaire rules

Learn the Solitaire rules used in DeNiro Card: the deal, legal moves and how to win. House rules vary; these are the rules at DeNiro Card tables.

How to play Solitaire

1. This is Klondike, the standard one-player solitaire: seven columns of 1 to 7 cards with the top card face up, and 24 cards in the stock.
2. Build the four foundations up from Ace to King, one per suit.
3. Columns build down in alternating colors. Only a King (alone or with its run) may move to an empty column. A newly exposed card turns face up automatically.
4. Draw 1: turn one card at a time from the stock to the waste and play the top one.
5. You may go through the stock three times in all: the first pass and two recycles. A third recycle is never offered.
6. Win: all 52 cards home, and you get double your stake back.
7. Loss (stake gone): no legal move remains, or after the final stock pass the same position comes round three times.
8. There is no undo, hint, restart or auto-complete at a coin table.
9. Your clock: at a coin table against the computer you get up to 180 seconds for each move, and the table header counts down the exact time left. If it runs out, the table plays that move for you on the merits. You are not forfeited, nothing extra is charged, and your stake and payout are unchanged. Each of your first three missed moves keeps the full clock; miss a third in a row and the rest of the hand runs at computer speed, about two thirds of a second a turn, which in practice finishes it for you. Making one move yourself puts the full clock back. An Online table against real people runs its own, separate clock; watch the same countdown there.

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Playing in DeNiro Card

Practice lets you play any game with no account and no coins. Coin tables use virtual play coins and need a DeNiro account; choose a coin stake before joining one. Leaving an active coin game forfeits the stake and adds a 10% leaving fee. Play coins have no cash value and cannot be cashed out.

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