How to Play Queen Victoria Solitaire

Queen Victoria takes King Albert and adds one big convenience: whole sequences of cards can move together instead of one at a time, which makes the tableau far easier to untangle. The goal: Move all 52 cards to the 4 foundation piles.

Setup

1. Place one face-up reserve pile with 7 cards.
2. Set up 4 foundation piles (starting empty).
3. Deal 1 card to the first tableau pile, 2 to the second, 3 to the third, and so on through 9 piles (all face up).

How to play

• Build foundations upward in suit from Ace through King.
• Build tableau piles downward in alternating colors (red on black, black on red).
• Move a sequence of cards together when each card is one rank lower and opposite color.
• Any card or sequence can fill an empty tableau pile.
• Play only the top card from the reserve to a foundation or tableau.
• Expose reserve cards one at a time to play them.
• Cards automatically move to the foundations once no other card could be built on them (you can change this behavior in Settings).

How to win

Objective: Move all 52 cards to the 4 foundation piles.

You win when all cards reach the foundations. The ability to move sequences gives you much more flexibility than King Albert.

Tips

• Preserve empty tableau piles as maneuvering spaces.
• Move sequences to the tableau before sending individual cards to foundations.
• The reserve cards come in a fixed order, so plan ahead for the ones you'll see later.

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Related games

More games from the Raglan family:

• King Albert — A challenging solitaire where you build down in alternating colors on a triangular tableau, drawing from a reserve pile instead of a stock.
• Big Bertha — A two-deck game with a unique separate Kings foundation.
• Muse — A King Albert variant that replaces the reserve with flexible free cells, letting you temporarily hold cards and maneuver complex tableau sequences across a stair-step pyramid layout.