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The different piles

There are three different types of piles in FreeCell Solitaire. They are:

• The Free Cells: The four piles in the upper left corner.
• The Foundations: The four piles in the upper right corner.
• The Tableau: The eight piles that make up the main table.

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The setup

The Tableau piles are numbered from 1 to 8, piles 1-4 start with 7 cards each, piles 5-8 with 6 cards each. The Foundations and Free Cells are empty.

The objective

To win FreeCell, you must get all the cards onto the Foundations. The Foundations are ordered by suit and rank, each Foundation has one suit and you must put the cards onto them in the order Ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jack Queen King. To do that you can use the moves described below:

Allowed moves

• Move one or more cards from one Tableau pile to another. You can move the top card of a pile on the Tableau onto another Tableau pile, if that pile's top card is one higher than the moved card and in a different color. For example, you could move a red 6 onto a black 7. If the top cards on a Tableau pile are ordered, e.g. you have red 6, black 5, red 4 as the top cards, then you can click the red 6 and move all of them together onto another Tableau pile that has a black 7 as its top card. HOWEVER, there is a limitation to how many ordered cards you can move together. The number of cards you can move together is basically the number of empty free cells and empty tableaus + 1. So, if you have 2 free cells empty you can move 3 cards together. If you have all 4 free cells empty you can move 5 cards. If you have 3 free cells and 4 empty tableaus you can move 8 cards together. Moving many cards together is basically just a convenience the game provides. In the strictest sense you should always move one at a time, but if you have 4 ordered cards and 3 free cells then you could trivially move the top 3 ordered cards to the free cells, then move the fourth card and then move the 3 cards from the free cells back onto the fourth card. So, for convenience the game allows you to move n+1 cards together, where n is the number of free cells.
  If you have an empty Tableau pile then you can move any card there.
• Move a single card onto a Free Cell. You can always move the top card of any Tableau Pile, Free Cell or Foundation onto a Free Cell if it's empty. Free Cell's can only hold a single card at a time.
• Move a card from a Free Cell. You can move a card from a Free Cell onto a Foundation if it's in the same suit and one higher than the Foundation's top card. Or you can move a card from a Free Cell onto a Tableau pile if the card is one lower and in a different color than the Tableau pile's top card. E.g. you could move a red 5 from a Free Cell onto a Tableau pile where the current top card was a black 6.
• You can move a Tableau card onto the Foundations. You can either drag the cards onto the Foundation, or just double click it and then it will go there by itself. When the Free Cells are empty and all cards on the Tableau are arranged in 4 piles and each of the piles has been ordered in descending order with alternating red/black cards then the Tableau will clear itself, since at that point you are guaranteed to win the game.
• You can Undo as many times as you like. The game offers unlimited undos. Each Undo counts as a new move though, so if you're trying to win the game in as few moves as possible you should be careful about how many undos you use.

Time and Moves

The game counts the moves you make, and measures the time it takes to finish the game, so you can compete against your previous best games if you want. Currently this data is not stored anywhere, in the future I might add some kind of high scores.

About FreeCell

Hi. My name is Einar Egilsson and I made this online verson of FreeCell. FreeCell is the second solitaire game I create, before that I created Klondike (or 'classic' solitaire) and I've also made a few card games like Hearts, Spades and Whist.

If you have any questions, comments or requests for other solitaire games you can send them to admin@cardgames.io or tweet at me @cardgames_io. If you have any errors or problems when playing the game please include which browser you're using when you email me, it makes figuring out the problem a lot easier :)

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The name of the game, FreeCell, comes from the four free cells in the top-left corner of the game board which can be used to temporarily store cards. The game was invented by Paul Alfille as a modification of an older game. Alfille also created a first FreeCell Solitaire video game in 1978. Although available in earlier version of system Windows, FreeCell gained much of its popularity when it was distributed with Windows 95. In that version there were 32,000 different card deals available. There was an attempt in 1994 to solve all of the 32,000 card deals. The project lasted almost a year and indicated that only one of the card deals was unsolvable. Since then, FreeCell remains famous for the fact that for any randomly shuffled card deal, the game is almost certainly solvable.

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As with most other patience and solitaire games, the player starts with a shuffled deck and must sort the cards from aces to kings for each suit separately. The sorted cards are being placed in the foundations in the top-right corner of the game board, beginning with aces. That is, a card can be placed in the foundation only if there is a card already there with a number lower by one and the same suit. If there are no available cards which can be placed in the foundations, the player must move the cards around on the game board so that more cards with low numbers are directly available.

As a rule, the player can move only one card at a time - unlike in other solitaire games in which the player can lift an entire stack of cards and move it to a different location. If a player wants to move more than one card to a new location, it is necessary to use free cells, which are in the top-left corner of the game board. The game automatically calculates how many cards a player can move based on the number of available free cells, as moving cards one by one can be tedious. Any card can be placed in a free cell. Also, any card can be placed in an empty tableau. However, a card can be placed on another card only if the latter card has a number higher by one and a suit of the opposite color to the former.

FreeCell Solitaire Online XL does not have a specific scoring scheme. The progress in the game is indicated by the number of cards left on the game board (the fewer the better). This however is not relevant when players compare their results. A relevant result is a percentage of games won, an average time to solve a game, or the longest winning streak.

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Here are a couple of tips. Right-click on a card to send it to a free cell. If no free cells are available or a card already is in a free cell, then a right-click sends a card to a foundation (if possible). The game automatically sends to the foundation cards that will not be useful in the game down the road.