How to Play Eliminator Solitaire

A Golf-style challenge with six foundation piles that build up or down regardless of suit, wrapping from King to Ace. Clear four packed tableau piles onto them one card at a time.

Setup

1. Deal all 52 cards evenly across 4 tableau piles (13 cards each), all face up
2. Set up 6 empty foundation piles, ready for play

How to play

• Start each foundation pile with any card, then build up or down by one rank regardless of suit
• Kings and Aces wrap around: a King can go on an Ace and an Ace can go on a King
• Move only the top (exposed) card from each tableau pile onto a foundation
• Matching cards move to the foundations automatically when they can't be built on the tableau
• Tableau cards can only move to foundations, not onto each other, so pick your foundation carefully

How to win

Objective: Move all cards from the tableau to the six foundations.

You win when all 52 cards are on the six foundations. You're stuck when no more cards can be moved to the foundations.

Tips

• Watch for natural sequences like A-2-3 that you can complete together on one foundation
• Take advantage of the wraparound rule to keep foundations flexible
• Expose buried tableau cards by clearing the cards above them onto foundations

Play Eliminator free on Windows

CardTray is a free solitaire app for Windows that includes Eliminator 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 Golf family:

• Lincoln Greens — Lincoln Greens is a demanding tableau-clearing game using four decks where you build a single foundation pile that wraps around in rank, while carefully managing a large tableau.
• Putt Putt — A single-foundation game where you build up or down by rank, and the run wraps from King back to Ace so you're rarely stuck for long.
• Up and Up — A relaxed solitaire variant where you try to use up the entire stock by building ascending sequences in the tableau.
• Ants — Move all cards to four foundation piles by building up or down in any suit.
• Black Hole — One card (the Ace of Hearts) starts a single wrapping foundation.