How to Play Thirty Six Solitaire

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

Setup

1. Deal 6 cards to each of 6 tableau piles.
2. Set up 4 empty foundation piles above.
3. The remaining 16 cards form the stock.

How to play

• Click the stock to deal 1 card at a time to the waste pile.
• Move cards from the waste or tableau top to foundations (building up in suit from Ace).
• In the tableau, build piles downward in any suit (e.g., a 5 goes on any 6).
• Move single cards or entire sequences together.
• Empty tableau spaces accept any card or sequence.
• 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 the stock is exhausted and no more moves are available.

Tips

• Build long sequences early to free up tableau space for maneuvering.
• Keep empty spaces for moving sequences, but fill them strategically when you need to access buried cards.

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Related games

More games from the Klondike family:

• 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.
• Agnes Sorel — Similar to Agnes Bernauer but designed more like Spider: the random base rank starts the foundations, and tableau piles build in the same suit color instead of alternating colors.