How to Play Thirty Nine Steps Solitaire

Build all cards to the foundations while arranging tableau piles in descending order by suit. You have one pass through the stock.

Setup

1. Deal 3 cards to each of 13 tableau piles.
2. Place 4 foundation piles above (one for each suit).
3. The remaining stock goes to the side.

How to play

• Click the stock to deal 1 card at a time to the waste pile.
• Move the top card from any tableau pile or the waste pile to a foundation (if it continues a suit sequence from Ace up).
• In the tableau, build piles in descending order by suit (e.g., 5♠ goes on 6♠).
• Only the top card of each tableau pile can be moved.
• Empty tableau spaces can be filled with any available card.
• The app automatically moves a card to the foundation once no other card can be built on it; you can change this in Settings.
• When the stock runs out, you're done (no redeal).

How to win

Objective: Move every card to the foundations, building each suit from Ace to King.

Win by moving all cards to the foundations. You lose when you run out of stock and can't continue.

Tips

• Free up Aces as soon as you can—they're the only card that starts a foundation pile.
• Use empty spaces strategically to rearrange tableau cards before the stock runs out.
• All tableau cards are dealt face up, so study the whole layout before you commit to a move.

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Related games

More games from the Klondike family:

• 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.
• Unlimited — Unlimited gives you as many passes through the stock as you need: once it's empty, just turn the waste back over and keep going while you build up eight foundations across two decks.
• Westcliff — A moderately easy solitaire game where you work with a large tableau of ten piles and a single deck.