How to Play Beehive Solitaire

A Storehouse variant where you match cards by rank alone, building identical-rank stacks in the tableau. A 10-card reserve provides access to buried cards, while the stock deals three cards at a time.

Setup

1. The tableau has six piles, each starting with one card.
2. A reserve pile holds 10 cards face down, with only the top card visible.
3. A stock deals cards three at a time to a waste pile.
4. Thirteen foundation piles, one for each rank, each accept a complete four-card set of that rank, moved together.

How to play

• In the tableau, place a card of the same rank on top of another card (any suit).
• You can move single cards or entire runs of matching-rank cards together.
• The reserve shows only its top card, which can play to the tableau or foundations.
• Click the stock to deal three cards to the waste pile.
• The top card of the waste pile is available to play.
• When the stock empties, click it again to turn the waste pile back over and redeal (no shuffling).
• When a tableau pile empties, any card can fill it.
• Complete four-card sets automatically move to the foundations once no other card can be built on them—you can change this in Settings.

How to win

Objective: Gather all four cards of each rank together and move each complete set to its foundation.

You win when all 52 cards are on the foundations as 13 complete four-card sets, one per rank.

Tips

• Plan which tableau columns will hold each rank—mixing ranks makes it harder to complete sets.
• Use the reserve strategically to access cards you need from beneath it.
• You can redeal the waste unlimited times, so patience and planning go a long way.

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Related games

More games from the Canfield family:

• Double Storehouse — A two-deck variant where Twos are the base rank and you get three chances to work through the stock.
• Canfield — A notoriously difficult classic game (house odds were so bad it was played in casinos).
• Demon — A two-deck game with a deep reserve pile and unlimited redeals.