The deal
Nine columns receive four cards each: two face down, then two face up. The rest of the two decks form the stock.
Forty Thieves & two-deck builders · Grand Plaza
Midshipman Solitaire
Nine columns receive four cards each: two face down, then two face up. The rest of the two decks form the stock.
Seed183173
Moves0
Timer00:00
Stock68
Statusin progress
Streak0
Select a face-up card, then a highlighted destination.
Stock · 68
♣ 1
♣ 2
♦ 1
♦ 2
♥ 1
♥ 2
♠ 1
♠ 2
Column 1 · 4
Column 2 · 4
Column 3 · 4
Column 4 · 4
Column 5 · 4
Column 6 · 4
Column 7 · 4
Column 8 · 4
Column 9 · 4
Playing the tableau
Move one exposed card at a time, building down on a card of a different suit. Any card may enter an empty column. Build eight foundations upward by suit.
Goal and first plan
Reveal the hidden cards and finish all eight foundations.
A descending card can move to any of three other suits, making early reveals more important than constructing a perfect color sequence.
Related games
Midshipman is part of Grand Plaza · Forty Thieves & two-deck builders and is a variant of Napoleon at St Helena. Two of four starting cards are hidden, and a descending card must change suit.
More Forty Thieves & two-deck builders games
- Napoleon at St Helena — Ten tableau columns, two decks.
- Canister — A one-deck eight-column builder with four cards in the middle row.
- Colonel — A three-row tableau exposes cards only after the cell beneath is cleared.
- Deauville — Thirty hidden tableau cards give way to alternating-color building.
- Diplomat — Two-deck patience with eight tableau piles.
- Dress Parade — Hidden-card alternating-color columns allow packed sequence moves.
Also try
- Babette — Two-deck blockade with ascending and descending suit foundations.
- Big Ben — Clock-face foundations building by suit.
- Miss Milligan — Double-deck patience with a weave reserve.