cardgamerulesGOOD GAMES START HERE. SAME SUIT. THE WHOLE TAIL.Russian Solitaire lays out the whole pack like Yukon, then tightens the joining rule: build down in the same suit. Any face-up card can carry its complete tail, even when that tail is mixed or out of order. Learn four prepared positions, then explore a full shuffled deal.
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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 joins, unordered group moves, revealing cards and single-card foundations. Then try the full seven-column layout.
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Move all 52 cards to four foundations. Unlike Yukon, Russian Solitaire requires the same suit at each tableau join. It still lets an unordered face-up tail travel as a unit.
See the same-suit move ↓Column totals are 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. Twenty-one cards begin face down.
Carry any face-up leader and its full tail onto the next higher card of that suit.
Expose hidden end cards and build the four foundations one single card at a time.
The stricter join changes the puzzle without changing Yukon’s opening layout. This guide states the empty-column and foundation-return conventions used by our practice table.
Use one 52-card pack without jokers. Deal a staircase of one through seven cards, exposing the end card of each column. Add four more face-up cards to columns two through seven. The resulting totals are 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
There is no stock or waste. Twenty-one cards start hidden, and all others are visible. Leave four spaces for same-suit foundations.
Select any face-up card and move it with every card below it onto a different column. The receiving end card must be exactly one rank higher in the same suit. An eight of hearts needs a nine of hearts; another red nine is not enough.
The travelling tail itself need not be ordered or all one suit. Every card below the selected leader must travel. Face-down cards cannot be selected, and ace does not wrap to king.
An empty column accepts only a king, alone or leading its whole tail. A lower card cannot be moved into that space. Whenever a move exposes a hidden end card, turn it face up immediately.
Opening hidden cards gives more choices. Keep track of which cards will become exposed rather than moving a tail just because its first card has a legal destination.
Only an exposed end card can go to a foundation. Start with an ace and continue one rank up in the same suit. A group cannot move to a foundation together.
At this table, an exposed foundation card may return to a legal tableau position. Select the foundation with no other card selected, then choose a column heading. Undo also lets you explore another decision.
Win when all 52 cards are in the four foundations. Having every tableau card face up does not finish the game. There is no hidden stock to draw from, timer to beat or automatic solver.
The deals are random and not checked for solvability. If progress stops, use a legal-option hint, undo, restart the same deal or choose another shuffle.
Yukon joins in alternating colours; Russian Solitaire joins in the same suit. Scorpion also uses same-suit joins, but has a different opening layout, a three-card stock and complete-run removal rather than single-card foundations.
Reference: Solitaired’s Russian Solitaire guide. Foundation returns are an explicit convention of this table. Our wording, lesson positions and implementation are original.
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The aim: move all 52 cards to four same-suit ace-to-king foundations.
Reveal newly uncovered end cards. All 52 home wins. Random deals and hints do not guarantee a solution.
LEARN IT. DEAL IT. ENJOY IT. ♣The layout and unordered tail move are similar, but Russian Solitaire uses same-suit joins rather than alternating colours.
Twenty-one. Column one has one exposed card; the other columns have their final five cards exposed.
Yes. Only the leading card must make the correct same-suit descending join. All cards below it travel too.
A king alone or a tail led by a king. Other ranks cannot start empty columns.
No. There is no stock or waste; every card is in the opening tableau.
No. Move exposed single cards, ace first, then ascending in suit.
Yes at this table. Select an exposed foundation card and a legal tableau destination, or use Undo.
No. Shuffles are not pre-checked, and hints show legal options rather than a complete solution.