cardgamerulesGOOD GAMES START HERE. EIGHT CELLS. FOUR SUITS. ONE PLAN.Eight Off Solitaire deals forty-eight cards into eight open columns and four more into storage cells. Build down in suit, use eight single-card cells and reserve empty columns for kings. Learn how free cells limit group moves, then play the full 52-card deal.
CURRENT GROUP LIMIT 5 CARDS · FREE CELLS + ONE
Use exposed cards. For group games, select a card then a column heading, foundation or empty cell. Wider boards scroll inside this frame.
Practise same-suit building, single-card storage, group capacity and king-only empty columns. Four lessons lead into a complete shuffled deal.
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Move all cards to four same-suit foundations. Eight cells offer temporary storage, but filling them restricts how many ordered cards can travel together.
See cells and group capacity ↓Eight columns of six, plus one face-up card in each of the first four cells.
Move singles or an ordered group with enough free cells. Empty columns need a king.
Build ace to king in each suit. Foundations are final at this table.
This table uses the king-only empty-column convention. Some digital Eight Off versions allow any rank into a gap; that easier rule is not used here.
Deal one 52-card pack without jokers into eight columns of six face-up cards. Put the last four cards face up in four of the eight cells. Four cells start empty.
Leave four empty foundation spaces. There is no stock or waste, and every rank is visible from the start. A visible card may still be blocked by cards below it.
An exposed end card can move onto the next higher card of the same suit. A seven of hearts needs an eight of hearts, not an eight of diamonds. There is no ace–king wrapping.
A correctly ordered same-suit tail may move as a shortcut if enough cells are empty. Unordered or mixed-suit tails cannot travel as one group.
Each of the eight cells holds at most one exposed single card. A cell card can return to a legal tableau position, go home or move to another empty cell.
With E empty cells, a group shortcut can carry at most E + 1 cards. The extra cards could be parked in cells one by one, the leader moved, then the parked cards restored in order. King-only empty columns are not extra storage for lower cards, so they do not multiply this capacity.
An empty tableau column accepts a king alone or a same-suit descending group led by a king, within the cell capacity. A low card can use a cell but cannot begin a column.
Use the column heading as the destination. To put a single card into a cell, select the exposed card and then the empty cell. Selecting the first card of an ordered run selects the whole run.
Start each foundation with an exposed ace, then build up one rank at a time in the same suit through king. Only singles go home, including exposed cell cards. Foundation cards cannot return at this table.
Win when all 52 cards are home. The layout is fully visible but random deals are not pre-checked for solvability. Undo, same-deal restart and hints support exploration without a timer or stored score.
FreeCell commonly builds alternating colours and permits other ranks in empty columns. Eight Off uses same-suit joins, eight cells and, here, king-only columns. It also starts with four cells occupied.
Reference: eSolutions’ Eight Off rules, including its king-only convention and single-card basis for group shortcuts. Some other publishers use more permissive empty-column rules. Our wording, lessons and implementation are original.
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The aim: move all 52 cards to four same-suit ace-to-king foundations.
Empty columns do not multiply capacity at this king-only table. All 52 cards home wins.
LEARN IT. DEAL IT. ENJOY IT. ♣There are eight storage cells where cards can be placed temporarily. Four are occupied in the opening deal.
Yes. Forty-eight are in the tableau and four in cells. There is no stock.
No. Build down by suit. A red seven cannot join just any red eight.
Yes as a shortcut when it is ordered down in one suit and contains no more than empty cells plus one cards.
Not at this king-only table. Lower cards cannot be temporarily parked in those columns, so the limit uses empty cells only.
A king or a king-led ordered group within capacity. Any exposed single may use an empty cell instead.
No at this table. Undo can reverse an earlier move.
No. Deals are random and hints identify legal options, not a complete solution.