How to Play Double Rail Solitaire

A two-deck game with a compact five-pile tableau where sequences can mix suits and whole runs can be relocated together. Work through a single pass of the stock to clear every card to the foundations.

Setup

1. Eight foundation piles start empty—you'll place Aces there as they become available
2. Five tableau piles form the main playing area, with one card dealt to each
3. A stock pile holds the remaining cards; click it to deal one card at a time to the waste

How to play

• Move cards from the waste or tableau to foundations (building up in suit from Ace to King) or onto other tableau piles (building down, any suit)
• You can move entire sequences together when building in the tableau, as long as each card is one rank lower than the one it covers
• Use empty tableau spaces to temporarily park cards—they accept any card or run
• Deal from the stock by clicking it; once depleted, the game ends (no redeal)
• Cards automatically move to the foundations once no other card can be built on them—this behavior is adjustable in Settings

How to win

Objective: Move all 104 cards to the eight foundations, building each suit from Ace to King.

You win when all cards reach the foundations. The game is stuck if cards remain but no legal moves exist.

Tips

• Expose buried cards early by building down in the tableau before committing cards to the foundations
• Since there's no redeal, be strategic with your stock—avoid burying high cards in the waste
• Create empty tableau spaces for maneuvering when sequences become tangled

Play Double Rail free on Windows

CardTray is a free solitaire app for Windows that includes Double Rail alongside 300+ other games. It saves every move as you play, so you can close the window and pick the game up later, replay any deal, and take on a new Daily Challenge deal every day. Browse every game in the Game Gallery.

Related games

More games from the Forty Thieves family:

• Eight by Eight — A two-deck solitaire with eight columns and eight rows of tableau cards, where you work through a stock that redeals with fewer cards each pass.
• Forty-Nine — A two-deck cousin of Forty Thieves named for its seven-by-seven tableau grid.
• Fours Up — A two-deck game that starts with Fours instead of Aces.
• Little Forty — Little Forty relaxes the suit restrictions of Forty Thieves: build the tableau in any suit and move whole sequences together regardless of suit.
• Maria — Work through nine overlapping tableau piles to build eight foundations up in suit.