How to Play Fortune's Favor Solitaire

An unusually generous game where all four Aces start in the foundations, giving you an immediate boost to clear the wide tableau. The goal: Build all four Ace foundations up to Kings by suit.

Setup

1. The four Aces are dealt directly to the foundations to begin
2. 12 tableau piles receive one card each, face-up
3. The remaining cards form the stock, dealt one at a time to the waste

How to play

• Click the stock to deal one card at a time to the waste pile
• Build the tableau down by one rank, same suit; only the top card of each pile can be moved
• When you clear a tableau card, the empty pile is immediately refilled with the top card from the waste (or from the stock if the waste is empty)
• Play top cards from the tableau or waste pile to the 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)
• Continue until all cards are built onto the foundations or no more moves are possible

How to win

Objective: Build all four Ace foundations up to Kings by suit.

You win when all cards are built onto the four foundations. You're stuck when remaining cards cannot reach the foundations.

Tips

• Create empty tableau piles early to absorb cards from the waste pile
• Keep low cards in the tableau accessible for the foundations
• Plan waste pile plays carefully since you cannot redeal the stock

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Related games

More games from the Foundations family:

• 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.
• Corner Suite — This single-deck game starts with nine empty tableau piles instead of dealt cards, giving you an open board to build on as you draw cards from the stock.