The descending deal
The ten columns make a stepped shape: the first hides nine cards, the second eight, and the last none. Moving a card or run from a column exposes its next hidden card.
Unlike the pair-removal game Pyramid, Pyramide uses Klondike-style tableau building and suit foundations. It is also known as Big Harp.
Plan the two stock passes
The waste shows only its top card. When the stock runs out, you may recycle the waste once. Revealing hidden tableau cards early gives you more places to play stock cards before the final pass ends.
Choose the Kings-only rule for a tighter game: empty columns then accept only a King or a King-headed run.
Pyramide is part of Downtown · Klondike family and is a variant of Klondike. Uses two decks, ten columns, eight foundations, and one waste recycle.
More Klondike family games
- Klondike — The patience everyone knows. Draw 1 or 3.
- Agnes — Klondike-family with reserve deals and a variable base.
- Easthaven — Klondike that deals rows from the stock.
- Gargantua — Two-deck Klondike: 9 columns, 8 foundations.
- Kuiper — Triangular eight-column Klondike variant.
- Las Vegas Solitaire — Draw-one Klondike with a single pass through the stock.
Also try
- Emperor (Forty Thieves & two-deck builders) — Two-deck Forty Thieves relative with waste play.
- Intrigue (Court games) — Eight Queen columns; eight Five-piles built down to the King and eight Six-piles built up to the Jack, regardless of suit.
- Milligan Cell (Miss Milligan & row dealers) — Four free cells add temporary storage to Miss Milligan’s eight columns.
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