Play American Toad Solitaire

Seed: 205684Moves: 0Timer: 00:00Passes: 0/2Reserve: 20Status: In progress

Draw from the stock or click a card to select it, then click a highlighted destination.

Stock (76)

Waste (0)

Empty

Reserve (20)

Col 1

Col 2

Col 3

Col 4

Col 5

Col 6

Col 7

Col 8

How to Play

Draw one card at a time from the stock onto the waste pile. Only 2 passes through the stock are allowed.
The top card of the waste pile, the top card of the reserve, and the top card of each tableau column are all available to play.
Move a single card to a tableau column that has a card of the same suit and one rank higher (wrapping: Ace can go on 2, King on Ace).
The first card sent to a foundation sets the starting rank for all foundations of that suit. Foundations build upward in suit with wrapping.
Only 8 foundations need to be completed (one per suit per deck copy) — move all 104 cards there to win.
Empty tableau columns are filled automatically: first from the reserve, then from the waste pile.
Use Undo freely — but remember you only get 2 passes through the stock.

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What is American Toad?

American Toad is a two-deck patience game that combines several unusual mechanics: same-suit tableau building with wraparound, a shared base-rank foundation start (like Canfield), and a 20-card reserve that automatically fills empty tableau columns. The auto-refill makes empty column management feel different from most solitaire games — clearing a column is not a strategic resource, since it fills immediately from the reserve.

Full rules

Two 52-card decks (104 cards). Twenty cards form the reserve; the remaining cards and tableau are dealt according to the game structure. Tableau columns build downward by the same suit with wraparound (Ace follows King in the same suit). When a tableau column is emptied, it is immediately refilled from the reserve.

Eight foundations share the same base rank (determined by the first card played to any foundation) and build upward by suit with wraparound. Stock deals to waste; waste top is available. Win when all 104 cards reach the foundations.

Same-suit wraparound tableau

The combination of same-suit building and wraparound creates tableau sequences that can cross the King-Ace boundary: an Ace of spades can be placed on a 2 of spades (building down), and in the wrapped direction, a King of spades can receive a Queen of spades continuing downward toward Ace. This circular sequence is more flexible than most same-suit games but requires tracking the full suit cycle rather than a simple descending rank chain.

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Auto-refill and the reserve

Because empty columns refill immediately from the reserve, “creating an empty column” as a strategic move does not persist in American Toad. The reserve is the real resource: each auto-refill depletes it, and once the reserve is exhausted, empty columns become genuinely open. Managing which reserve cards surface — by controlling when and where columns empty — is the primary mid-game skill.

Related two-deck games

Canfield — same shared-base-rank foundation concept; 13-card reserve; single-deck
Crescent — two-deck same-suit building; bidirectional foundations; fan rotation
Napoleon at St Helena — two-deck same-suit tableau; no reserve; single stock pass