How to Play Lady Cadogan Solitaire

A two-deck game with a distinctive dual foundation approach: one foundation builds up in suit from Aces, while the other accumulates complete sequences. The tableau plays like Klondike with cards building down and same-suit sequences moving together.

Setup

1. Deal two decks of cards into a 10-pile tableau, with 1 card in the first pile, 2 in the second, continuing to 10 in the last pile
2. Only the top card of each pile is face up; the rest are hidden
3. Create the left foundation, where each of the 4 piles must start with an Ace of a different suit
4. Create the right foundation where complete same-suit runs from Ace to King will go
5. The remaining cards form the stock

How to play

• Click the stock to draw one card at a time to the waste pile
• Build the left foundation up from Ace to King in matching suits, one rank at a time (each of the 4 piles starts with a different suit's Ace)
• Build the right foundation with complete sequences—move a full 13-card suit run as a block when available
• In the tableau, build down one rank at any suit (so a 7 of any suit can go on an 8 of any suit)
• Move multiple cards together when they form a same-suit descending sequence
• Place only Kings in empty tableau piles
• Click the empty stock to turn over the waste for unlimited redeals

How to win

Objective: Move all 104 cards to the foundations—fill the left foundation by suit sequences and place complete 13-card runs on the right foundation.

You win when all 104 cards are distributed between the two foundations. You're stuck when the stock and waste are empty and no more moves are available.

Tips

• Focus on building the left foundation steadily while using the right foundation for complete runs
• Expose buried cards in the tableau by planning tableau moves carefully
• Watch for opportunities to move entire sequences together to free up spaces for Kings

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Related games

More games from the Klondike family:

• Lanes — A streamlined Klondike variant played on just six lanes of three cards each.
• Lily — Lily challenges you to sort two decks into 13 tableau piles, each building down into one complete King-to-Ace run of alternating colors.
• Manx — Build complete 13-card runs in descending rank order across four tableau piles, using a single spare cell to help maneuver cards.
• Pantagruel — Pantagruel is a two-deck Klondike variant with nine tableau piles, giving you a bit more room to maneuver while you build in alternating colors and work through a single-pass stock.
• Rouge Forty — Ten tableau piles are dealt four cards deep with only the top card showing, and you dig through them to feed four color-based foundations and four complete-run foundations.