Related solitaire variants
- Klondike Solitaire if you want the classic alternating-colour foundation builder.
- Easthaven Solitaire for another stock-driven Klondike-style variation.
- Yukon Solitaire if you prefer more tableau freedom and no stock.
New variant
Australian Patience
Seven columns of four face-up cards each are dealt at the start, with the remaining 24 cards held in the stock for one pass. Tableau columns build downward in the same suit — move any face-up card along with everything above it onto a column whose top card is the same suit and one rank higher. Only a King (with or without cards on top) may fill an empty column. Play cards from the waste pile onto the tableau or foundations. Build all four foundations from Ace to King to win.
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What is Australian Patience?
Australian Patience is a Klondike variant where the tableau builds downward by the same suit — not alternating colors — and groups of face-up same-suit cards can be moved together as a unit. This combination gives it the reveal structure of Klondike (hidden face-down cards, stock) with the same-suit group-move freedom of Scorpion. The stock is single-pass, making it harder than Klondike.
Full rules
One 52-card deck. Seven tableau columns are dealt in Klondike style (1–7 cards, top card face-up). Tableau builds downward by same suit: a 7 of hearts can receive a 6 of hearts. Any face-up same-suit descending sequence can be moved as a unit to a valid destination (a card one rank higher in the same suit). Only Kings fill empty columns.
Foundations build upward by suit from Ace to King. Stock deals one card at a time to waste; no recycling. Win by moving all 52 cards to foundations.
Same-suit building vs. alternating-color
In Klondike, any card of the right rank and opposite color extends a tableau sequence. In Australian Patience, only the same suit continues a sequence. This restriction means far fewer legal destinations per card — at most four (the two copies of the next-higher same-suit card, but since one deck, just one). Blockage is common, and the single-pass stock makes recovery from bad placements expensive.
The group-move freedom partially compensates: a complete same-suit run can relocate without card-by-card transfers, enabling large reorganizations in fewer moves.
Single-pass stock discipline
The stock can be used once with no recycling — exactly like Napoleon at St Helena. Every stock card that passes without being played is permanently gone. Before drawing, scan the tableau for group moves that would improve destinations for the next stock card. Same-suit group moves can create new foundation opportunities quickly, and exhausting them before drawing is the primary pre-draw routine.
Related same-suit games
- Scorpion — same-suit group moves; one-deck; no stock; complete K→A runs in tableau
- Napoleon at St Helena — two-deck same-suit; single stock pass; no group moves
- Klondike — alternating-color; hidden cards; stock recycles