Solitaire Grande

Setup:

1. Use a standard 52-card deck.
2. Shuffle the deck thoroughly.
3. Deal a row of seven face-up cards, then place a face-down card on the first face-up card. Continue this pattern, dealing one fewer face-down card on each subsequent face-up card. This creates a tableau with one card in the first pile, two in the second, and so on, until the seventh pile has seven cards. The first card in each pile is face-up, and the rest are face-down.

Objective: move all the cards to the foundation piles, following ascending order for each suit (from Ace to King).

Rules:

1. You can move face-up cards between tableau piles in descending order and alternating colors. For example, you can place a red 6 on a black 7.
2. A King can be moved to an empty tableau pile.
3. Any face-up card or a sequence of face-up cards in descending order and of the same suit can be moved to an empty foundation pile.
4. You can draw cards from the remaining deck (stock) one at a time. The top card in the stock is turned face-up.

Gameplay:

1. Examine the tableau and look for moves that allow you to uncover face-down cards and free up tableau piles.
2. When you have an Ace, place it in one of the foundation piles. Then, build on that foundation pile by adding cards in ascending order of the same suit (e.g., place 2, 3, 4, etc., of the same suit on top of the Ace).
3. Continue moving cards around the tableau, building sequences and trying to reveal face-down cards.
4. If you can’t make any more moves, draw a card from the stock and see if it can be used on the tableau or in the foundation piles.
5. Keep repeating steps 1-4 until all cards are in the foundation piles in ascending order by suit, from Ace to King. When this happens, you’ve won the game.

Winning: The game is won when all cards are successfully moved to the foundation piles following the ascending order by suit.

The key is to plan your moves carefully and think ahead, especially when deciding which face-down cards to uncover and when to draw from the stock.