How to Play Single Interchange Solitaire

A tough single-deck game that keeps every tableau build strictly within one suit, easing the pressure a little with unlimited stock redeals. The goal: Move all 52 cards to the four foundation piles, building each suit from Ace to King.

Setup

1. Deal 5 cards to each of 5 tableau piles. In each pile, the odd-numbered cards (1st, 3rd, 5th) face up and even-numbered cards (2nd, 4th) face down.
2. Place remaining cards as the stock.
3. Foundation piles wait above, ready to receive Aces and build upward by suit.

How to play

• Click the stock to draw one card at a time to the waste pile.
• Build foundation piles up in suit from Ace to King. Cards automatically move to the foundations once no other card could be built on them (you can change this in Settings).
• Build tableau piles down in suit: a 6♣ on a 7♣ only.
• Move groups of cards together when they form a valid same-suit run descending in rank.
• Face-down cards turn face up automatically once you clear the cards above them.
• Empty tableau piles accept only Kings.
• When the stock runs out, click the empty stock to turn the waste back over and continue. Redeals are unlimited.

How to win

Objective: Move all 52 cards to the four foundation piles, building each suit from Ace to King.

Win by building all four foundation piles complete. You're stuck if buried cards block access to others and no legal moves remain.

Tips

• Unlimited redeals mean you can afford to plan carefully—there's no time pressure.
• Expose face-down cards as your main priority, as they often contain the cards you need.
• Use empty tableau piles to temporarily rearrange sequences and access buried cards.

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Related games

More games from the Klondike family:

• Strata — A compact puzzle using a stripped two-deck set of 64 cards (no ranks below Seven).
• Thirty Nine Steps — Build all cards to the foundations while arranging tableau piles in descending order by suit.
• Thirty Six — Fill a compact 6-by-6 spread of tableau piles and empty it by stacking cards downward without worrying about suit, sending everything up to the foundations.
• Triple Interchange — Build foundations from Ace while managing a tableau where cards alternate between hidden and visible.
• Triple Left — A challenging variant of Moving Left where you work with 12 tableau piles and must complete the game with just one pass through the stock.