cardgamerulesGOOD GAMES START HERE. A DIFFERENT START. THE SAME FOUR SUITS.Canfield Solitaire starts its foundations on a dealt rank instead of always on an ace. Work through a thirteen-card reserve, build four alternating-colour columns and cycle a draw-three stock. Learn the reserve and wrapping ranks in four lessons, then play a full shuffled game.
FOUNDATION BASE
Select a face-up card, then a column heading or foundation. Wider tables scroll inside this frame.
Learn a changing foundation base, king-to-ace wrapping, reserve refills and draw-three stock with unlimited recycling. Then try all 52 cards.
Draw three · Unlimited recycling · Four prepared lessonsReplace this position and start the selected mode?
Each foundation starts at the opening card’s rank and builds up in suit, wrapping from king to ace. Empty tableau columns draw from the reserve before other sources can fill them.
See reserve priority ↓Thirteen cards, only the top exposed. Deal one foundation base and four tableau cards.
Alternate colours one rank down, with king on ace allowed. Move singles or whole ordered columns.
Draw three to waste. Only the top plays. Recycle without shuffling as often as needed.
This is draw-three Canfield, also known as Demon Patience, with unlimited stock recycling, exposed singles or whole-column moves, and foundation returns. These conventions are stated so other variants do not get mixed in.
Shuffle 52 cards without jokers. Put thirteen in a reserve pile, exposing only its top card. Deal the next card to the first foundation: its rank becomes the base for all four foundations.
Deal one face-up card to each of four tableau columns. The remaining thirty-four cards form a stock, with a waste space beside it. The foundation base rank remains fixed throughout that deal, even if you later bring its first card back to the tableau.
Build down one rank in alternating colours. A red eight fits a black nine. At the corner, a king may fit an opposite-colour ace. An exposed single end card may move; alternatively move an entire correctly built column by selecting its first card.
A partial group from the middle of a column is not allowed at this table. Reserve and waste top cards may join legal tableau ends. Only exposed cards are selectable; covered reserve and waste cards are unavailable.
When a move leaves a column empty and reserve cards remain, the exposed reserve card fills that gap immediately. The next reserve card then turns face up. The reserve top may also play directly to a legal foundation or occupied tableau column.
Once the reserve is exhausted, any exposed single or a complete ordered tableau column can fill an empty column. There is no king-only restriction in that situation.
Draw up to three stock cards onto the waste, or fewer if fewer remain. Only the waste top can play. Moving it exposes the card below. The other cards in a drawn packet are not independently selectable while covered.
After the stock is empty, Recycle stock turns the waste back in its existing order, without shuffling. That action prepares the stock; click Draw three cards again to deal. Recycling is unlimited. Removing cards can change which cards are exposed on the next pass.
Every empty foundation starts at the same base rank. If the first card was a queen, each suit builds queen, king, ace, two and on through jack. Build one rank up in the same suit, wrapping king to ace. Each completed foundation contains thirteen cards.
Exposed foundation cards can return to legal tableau destinations at this table. Win when all 52 cards are on the four foundations. There is no time limit or stored score; random deals are not checked for solvability.
Names and digital implementations vary. This table uses draw three, unlimited recycling, automatic reserve refills, single or whole-column moves and foundation returns. It does not allow partial-column group moves, draw-one mode or a betting system.
References: Solitaired’s reserve, foundation and stock rules, Arkadium’s Canfield guide and eSolutions’ wrapping and group-move rules. Wording and practice code are original.
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The aim: move all 52 cards to four same-suit foundations starting at the dealt base rank.
The base rank stays fixed. Recycle and draw are separate actions. Complete all four foundations to win.
LEARN IT. DEAL IT. ENJOY IT. ♣The rank of the single opening foundation card. Each other foundation starts on that same rank, then builds upwards in its own suit.
Yes on an opposite-colour tableau ace. Foundations wrap in the other direction: king is followed by ace of the same suit.
Thirteen, with only the top face up. Playing it reveals the next card.
The reserve top fills it automatically while reserve cards remain. After that pile is exhausted, an exposed single or a whole ordered column can fill a gap.
Not a multi-card partial sequence at this table. Move an exposed end card or select the first card to move the whole ordered column.
Up to three cards turn onto waste. Only the exposed top plays. When stock is exhausted, recycle without shuffling, then draw again.
Yes. With no other card selected, select a foundation and choose a legal tableau column. The deal’s base rank remains unchanged.
No. These are random deals, and hints identify legal options rather than a complete route to victory.