Solitaire.City
Variant strategy

Westcliff rewards patience and careful waste management.

With ten columns and a single-card waste pile, Westcliff gives you room to manoeuvre but demands discipline about when to deal. Rushing the stock buries the waste pile and cuts off options — so extract every possible move from the current board before dealing.

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Core Westcliff tips

  • Deal from the stock only when no useful tableau move is available — there is no second pass through the stock.
  • Play the top waste card immediately onto the tableau or foundations before dealing again.
  • Uncover face-down cards as early as possible to expand your options.
  • Use empty columns as temporary staging areas rather than permanent parking spots.
  • Prioritise building longer tableau sequences over moving single cards to the foundations early.
  • Keep track of which suits are lagging in the foundations and direct reveals toward those suits.

Key difference from Easthaven

Easthaven deals one card to every column at once. Westcliff deals to a single waste pile instead, so you get a new card without changing the whole tableau. That makes each deal lower-risk, but you still need to use the waste card before dealing again.

Common mistake

The most common mistake is dealing repeatedly from the stock without playing the waste card first. This buries useful cards deep in the waste and leaves you with fewer playable options later.