Why play Gay Gordons?
Gay Gordons is a pairing game with unusual matching rules, which makes recognition speed and card availability more important than tableau construction.
Solitaire variant
Gay Gordons
Remove all 52 cards by finding pairs. Ten tableau piles of five cards each are dealt face-up, along with two reserve cards. Only the top card of each pile and the reserve cards are in play. Empty piles cannot be refilled. The goal is to clear the whole layout.
Seed: 141973Moves: 0Time: 00:00Status: in progress
Click a card to select it, then click its pair to remove both.
Tableau
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Reserve
Rules overview
Remove top-card pairs that total 11, pair Jacks together, and match Kings with Queens of different suits until the layout is empty.
Strategy tips
- Reserve cards are valuable because they widen the pairing pool beyond the tableau tops.
- Different-suit King/Queen matching is easy to miss, so scan those first when stuck.
- Avoid removing a simple pair if it blocks a rarer face-card opportunity.
Need more detail? Read the Gay Gordons strategy guide.