How to Play Double Aces and Kings Solitaire

A demanding four-deck game with eight ascending and eight descending foundation piles. Manage a large reserve pile and small tableau while balancing simultaneous upward and downward builds across sixteen foundations.

Setup

1. Shuffle four full decks together.
2. Deal one card each to start 8 ascending foundations (Aces) and 8 descending foundations (Kings), and 1 card to each of 8 tableau piles.
3. Deal 4 reserve piles with 13 cards each (face up).
4. Place remaining cards in the stock and an empty waste pile.

How to play

• Click the stock to deal one card at a time to the waste pile.
• On the ascending foundations, play cards in order (Ace, Two, Three...) in any suit. Once a card is placed, you can move the top card back out to an empty tableau pile if needed.
• On the descending foundations, play cards in reverse order (King, Queen, Jack...) in any suit; these piles wrap around, so once a pile reaches Ace a King can continue the sequence. These top cards can also move back out to an empty tableau pile.
• On the tableau, you can only move individual cards (no sequences). No building is allowed on the tableau—it's purely a temporary holding area. Empty tableau piles are refilled automatically with the top stock card.
• Draw from the reserve piles: only the top card of each reserve pile is playable, and it can go to the foundations or tableau.
• You get one pass through the stock with no redeal.

How to win

Objective: Move all 208 cards to sixteen foundation piles: eight building up from Ace to King, and eight building down from King to Ace, both in any suit.

You win when all 208 cards sit on the sixteen foundation piles. The game requires careful reserve management and strategic foundation play.

Tips

• The reserve pile holds critical cards—draw from it strategically to access buried cards when needed.
• Tableau piles refill automatically from the stock and can't be built on, so play each tableau card to a foundation as soon as you can before it's replaced.
• Balance building both ascending and descending foundations to avoid running out of moves.

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Related games

More games from the Foundations family:

• Fifteen — A two-deck game with eight foundations building both up and down, and 15 tableau piles where you can build by one rank higher or lower in the same suit.
• Grandfather — A distinctive two-deck game where half the foundations build upward and half build downward simultaneously.
• Little Billie — Little Billie is a two-deck game featuring dual foundation piles that build in opposite directions.
• Penta — Penta splits its layout in two: the left foundations build up while the right foundations build down (each side's tableau builds the opposite direction from its foundation), and everything starts from a Five.
• Twenty — Twenty runs two decks through a dual-foundation system: Ace foundations climb upward while King foundations count down.