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The four Aces are placed on the foundations to start. Twenty cards are dealt face-up in a 5×4 carpet grid; the remaining 28 form the stock. Move carpet cards to the foundations (built up by suit from Ace to King) and fill the empty holes from the waste pile. Deal one card at a time from the stock — the stock cannot be reused. Clear the entire carpet to win.
Click a carpet card to send it to a foundation, or deal from the stock.
Carpet Solitaire is a foundation game with a flat open layout called the carpet. All four Aces are pre-placed on the foundations, and the remaining 48 cards fill a carpet of five rows of four cards each (20 cards), with the stock providing the rest. Any carpet card that matches a foundation’s next needed card can move up immediately. Holes left by removed carpet cards are filled from the stock, which is the game’s primary tactical lever.
Four Aces go to foundations. Twenty cards are dealt face-up to the carpet (five rows of four). The remaining 28 cards form the stock. Any carpet card that fits a foundation moves up immediately. The hole it leaves is filled from the top of the stock. When no carpet card fits any foundation, deal one stock card to the waste; the waste top is always available for foundation play. Win when all 52 cards reach the foundations.
Holes in the carpet are temporary positions that the next stock card will fill. The key strategic insight is that holes are not just vacancies — they are an opportunity to bring a specific stock card into play. When a carpet card moves to the foundation and creates a hole, the hole will be filled by whatever card is next in the stock, not by your choice.
This means the sequence in which carpet cards are moved matters: clearing a hole in the right moment can surface a needed stock card, while clearing it too early may fill the hole with something useless.
Because Aces are pre-placed, the foundation sequence starts at 2 for all suits. This means the entire carpet should be evaluated at the start for 2s, 3s, and other low cards that can begin the foundation chains immediately. Early chains shorten the game and reduce stock pressure by putting more cards “away” before the stock begins filling holes.