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Gate Solitaire

1 deck. Average. No redeal.

Gate Solitaire
Gate Solitaire
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Gate Solitaire uses 52 cards (1 deck). You have 8 tableau piles with one card per pile. 10 cards are dealt into 2 reserve piles (with 5 cards in each pile). You also have 4 foundations.

Aces are moved to the foundations as they become available.

The object of the game
To build the foundations up in suit to Kings.

The rules
The top cards of tableau, reserve piles and the waste pile are available to play. You may build tableau piles down in sequence and alternating color. One card or the whole column can be moved from pile to pile. Spaces are automatically filled from the reserves, if they are not empty, then by any card.

When you have made all the moves initially available, begin turning over cards from stock pile to the waste pile.

There is no redeal.