Klondike variant
Seven columns start with three cards each — only the top card is face-up. Build tableau piles down in alternating colors, just like Klondike. When you are stuck, click the stock to deal one new card face-up onto every column. Send cards to the four foundations, ascending from Ace to King by suit, to win.
Click a face-up card to select it, then click a destination — or click the stock to deal.
Stock
Solitaire.City includes classic builders, pairing games, and larger two-deck patience variants, so you can jump between quick rounds and longer strategic layouts.
Easthaven Solitaire is a Klondike variant with a structurally different stock mechanic. Where Klondike draws one card at a time from stock to waste, Easthaven deals the entire remaining stock in rows — one card to every tableau column simultaneously, face-up. This single change transforms the pace and stakes of each stock use: instead of gradually revealing one card, every stock deal simultaneously covers all seven columns.
The game is also sometimes called Aces Up or Gavigan’s Game in some patience literature, though naming conventions vary.
The 52-card deck is dealt into seven columns of three cards each (21 cards), with only the top card face-up. The remaining 31 cards form the stock.
Tableau columns build downward in alternating colors. Properly ordered alternating-color sequences move as units. Only Kings (or King-headed sequences) fill empty columns. Foundations build upward by suit from Ace to King. When stuck, deal one new row from stock: one card goes face-up to each tableau column. This continues until the stock is exhausted. Win by moving all 52 cards to the foundations.
In Klondike, a stock draw reveals one new card and lets you choose whether to use it. In Easthaven, a deal row adds a card to every column simultaneously — there is no selective access. A poor position at deal time may see useful tableau tops buried under seven new cards simultaneously.
This makes pre-deal preparation essential in Easthaven. Before every row deal, the goal is to have as many columns as possible either empty (so the new card lands on nothing) or topped by a card that will combine usefully with what is coming. The reveal-first habit from Klondike applies even more strongly here.
An empty column in Easthaven before a row deal means one column receives its new card as a standalone top — which is often useful, since a single card is more likely to be sequenceable than a card buried under a mixed stack.
Creating and protecting empty columns before each row deal is the primary strategic lever in Easthaven. The ideal pre-deal state: at least one empty column, all other columns topped by low cards or Aces that will benefit from the new row.