How to Play Fly Solitaire

A two-deck variant where the eight Aces are dealt directly to the foundations at the start, and a 13-card reserve pile feeds the tableau. The goal: Build all eight Ace foundations up to Kings, any suit per pile.

Setup

1. Eight Aces are dealt to the foundations at the start
2. One reserve pile holds 13 cards, face-up
3. Five empty tableau piles stand ready
4. The remaining cards stay in the stock

How to play

• Play the top card of the reserve, or the stock's top card, to the tableau or foundations
• Once a card in the tableau has no other cards it can be built on, it moves automatically to a foundation pile (you can change this in Settings)
• Build the tableau with any card on any card, regardless of suit or rank; only the top card of a pile can be moved
• Any card can fill an empty tableau pile
• The stock's top card is always face up and playable directly; once the stock runs out, there is no redeal

How to win

Objective: Build all eight Ace foundations up to Kings, any suit per pile.

You win when every card is built onto the foundations, each pile running from Ace up to King in any suit. You're stuck when no moves are possible.

Tips

• Use tableau piles to temporarily hold cards that block reserve cards
• Create empty tableau piles early to manage the reserve card flow
• Plan ahead since you cannot recycle the stock

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Related games

More games from the Foundations family:

• Fortune's Favor — An unusually generous game where all four Aces start in the foundations, giving you an immediate boost to clear the wide tableau.
• Frog — A two-deck game with 104 cards where 13 cards sit in a playable reserve pile, cards play to any spot in five tableau piles, and foundations build by rank regardless of suit.
• Preference — A moderate-difficulty game combining stock-and-waste mechanics with tableau building.
• Busy Aces — A busy, forgiving two-deck game where you build eight foundation piles upward while managing twelve tableau stacks.
• Carpet — A simple game where you manage 20 exposed reserve piles and try to move all cards to the foundations using a single-pass stock.