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FreeCell is a unique and challenging variation of the Solitaire game. It gained popularity as video game software on Windows 95 and has been one of the most played games since. In a FreeCell game, all the cards face up and are always visible to the player. 

The game requires you to move all cards into four (4) separate piles, one of each suit in a sequential order. You get four open cells to stash four cards while shuffling around the rest. 

Nearly all FreeCell games are easy to win. A popular variation of FreeCell is Baker’s Game, which has the same goal and is relatively difficult to beat. However, the gameplay requires you to create stacks of cards of the same suit in the Tableau area. 

Objective

To win a game of FreeCell, you need to create four separate piles, each for a suit – Hearts (♥️), Clubs (♣️) , Diamonds (♦️), and Spades (♠️). In the Foundation area, each pile must have cards of the same suit in ascending order – Aces at the bottom and Kings at the top.

Game Setup

FreeCell’s layout has three areas – Foundation, Tableau, and Free cells. 

At the start of the game, a standard deck of 52 playing cards appears face-up in the Tableau area. Above it are the four empty cells and four slots for the suit-wise piles in the Foundation area.

The Tableau area has eight (8) columns with cards facing up. The first four (4) columns from the left have seven cards in each column, and the remaining four (4) columns have six cards.

Foundation and FreeCell areas remain empty at the start of the game.

Baker’s game has the same layout of cards.

Rules

• In FreeCell, the stacks you create in the columns of the Tableau area must be in alternating colors (black and red) and descending order.
• For the Baker’s Game variant, you must create stacks with cards of the same suit in descending order inside the columns of the Tableau area.

FreeCell

– At the start of the game, you get four free cells. You can move a single card into any of those free cells.

– You can only put one card in an empty cell, so each of the four cells can hold up to four cards.

– You can move the card from one of the cells to a column in the Tableau area or a pile in the Foundation area.

– You can move the top card from a pile in the Foundation area to a free cell.

Tip: Avoid moving Kings to the free cells to improve your chances of winning.

Foundation

You need to create four separate piles, each for one suit. The cards in each suit pile must be in ascending order, starting with Ace at the bottom and ending with King at the top.

You can directly move a card from a free cell to the Foundation area.

Tableau

– You start the game by moving the cards between one of the three areas: columns in the Tableau, a free cell, or the piles in the Foundation area.

– You can move a stack of cards with alternating colors and descending between columns. That is only allowed if the top card facing up in the destination column is of a higher rank (number) than the bottom-most card in the stack you want to move. For example, you can move a stack that has 7 of Spades at the bottom to a column with either 8 of Hearts or Diamonds as the top card.

– You must create stacks that alternate between black and red colors of separate suites in descending order. For example, your stack can start with 10 of Clubs at the bottom, followed by 9 of Diamonds on top of it. You can move it to a column with Jack of Hearts or Diamonds facing it.

– An empty column is more valuable than a free cell because you can move or start a stack of cards with one of the Kings.

– You can move any card in an empty column in the Tableau area to start a stack.

– When necessary, you can move a card from a pile in the Foundation area to a column in the Tableau.