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Pyramid Solitaire Rules
Objective
The objective in Pyramid Solitaire is to get rid of all the cards in the Pyramid. You get rid of cards by matching two cards whose ranks equal 13 together. Possible matches would be a 3 and a 10, 5 and an 8 etc. An ace ranks as 1, a Jack is 11, Queen is 12 and King is 13.
Gameplay
The game board in Pyramid solitaire is made up of four things:
- The Pyramid: The pyramid is made up of 28 cards, in 7 rows. Each card is partially covered by two cards from the next row.
- The Stock: The facedown pile on the bottom left. It is used to draw cards from and put on the Waste.
- The Waste: The faceup pile next to the Stock. Cards on the Waste can be matched to cards in the Pyramid to get rid of the Pyramid cards. E.g. you can drag a 4 from the Waste onto an open 9 on the Pyramid, and then both those cards will be moved to the Foundation, and are out of the game.
- The Foundation: The pile on the bottom right, where cards that have been removed from the Pyramid are put.
The purpose of the game is to match cards together so their ranks equal 13. The cards that are available are any card on the Pyramid that have no other cards covering them, and the top card on the Waste pile. In the beginning of the game all the cards in the bottom row of the Pyramid are available, then slowly the cards in the upper rows become available as you remove more of the cards in the lower rows.
Allowed Moves
- Flip cards from the Stock onto the Waste. You move cards from the Stock onto the Waste by clicking on the top card of the Stock.
- Move the top card of the Waste onto an open Pyramid card. You can either drag the top card of the Waste onto a Pyramid card to remove both of them, or you can first click the Waste card and then click the Pyramid card. Both do the same thing, you just click or drag depending on what you like better. The Pyramid card must be available for this to work, it can't be covered by any Pyramid card from a lower row.
- Move a Pyramid card onto another Pyramid card. Both the Pyramid cards must be available, not covered by any other card for this to work. Exactly like with the stock card you can either drag one card onto the other, or first click on one and then click on the other.
- Move a Pyramid card onto a Pyramid card that it is covering. If, for example, a 4 is covering a 9, and the other card covering the 9 has already been removed, then you can move the 4 onto the 9. If there's another card also covering the 9 then you can't do this. It varies between versions of Pyramid Solitaire whether this move is allowed or not, I've decided to allow it.
- Reset the Stock once it's empty. Once you've flipped all the cards from the Stock onto the Waste you can click on the RESET button where the Stock was, and it will put all the cards from the Waste back into the Stock. In this version you are allowed to reset the Stock as many times as you want.
- Move a King to the Foundation. The purpose is to move cards whose combined ranks equal 13 to the foundation. A King ranks as 13 by itself, so it can't be matched with any other card. To get rid of a King you can simply click the card once, or manually drag it onto the foundation.
- You can Undo as many times as you like. The game offers unlimited undos. Each Undo counts as a new move though, so if you're trying to win the game in as few moves as possible you should be careful about how many undos you use.
Winning
A game is considered won if all the cards from the Pyramid are removed. Not all games are winnable. The game will notify you if there's no chance of winning the game anymore.
Time and Moves
The game counts the moves you make, and measures the time it takes to finish the game, so you can compete against your previous best games. The best possible game would be if you never used the stock and always removed two cards at a time from the Pyramid (no kings), in that case your move count would be 14.
Variations
There are many variations of Pyramid Solitaire possible. In some you have more Waste piles, in others you never reset the Stock, some have the Stock face-up, and there are plenty of others as well. I've chosen this variation, please don't email me telling me it's 'wrong', there are many possibilities, this is just the one I like the best :)
Pyramid Solitaire is one of the most popular solitaire card games at Solitaire Paradise. Here we will teach you how to play Pyramid Soltiaire using a standard deck of cards. We'll also be explaining a few rule variations and providing tips on how to win Pyramid Solitaire.
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Setting Up Pyramid Solitaire
Pyramid Solitaire is played with a deck of 52 cards (with no jokers). As you can see from the picture below, you must deal a pyramid that is seven cards high that descends to be seven cards wide. A total of 28 cards are dealt to this pyramid, all face up. With the remaining 24 cards you can start the game with three cards turned over in seperate columns, also shown in the picture below.
Rules of Pyramid Solitaire
There are two types of pyramid solitaire game, Classic and Modern. They both share the majority of rules, but the modern game is easier and considered by many to be much more fun! The idea of the game is to remove all the cards from the pyramid, although some purists may argue that all cards including the cards you can deal for yourself should be removed. We consider that a solitaire folly, but what the hey, play which ever version floats your boat!
Shared Rules
- Cards can only be removed if they are completely exposed with no overlapping cards.
- Pairs of cards that add up to 13 can only be removed together. For example an Ace and a Queen (a Queen is equal to 12), a two and a Jack (a Jack is equal to 11), a three and a ten, and so on.
- A King can be removed on its own, as it equals 13.
- You can deal 3 cards out, under the pyramid each time you are stuck.
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Classic Rules
- Once you deal out the remaining cards until they run out, they can be combined (without shuffling) 3 times and then redealt. If you are looking for a particularly difficult to complete version, then you can see if you can win using only one deal.
- Can be played by either aiming to remove the pyramid on it's own, or trying to remove every single card in the deck.
Modern Rules
- The goal is to remove the pyramid only, but for an extra challenge try to remove all the cards that are dealt in groups of 3 aswell.
- You can only deal out the cards at the bottom once.
- However to make the game a better test of logic and planning, this version introduces the idea of a temporary card store. You may take one immediately accessible card from either pyramid or the 3 card deal at the bottom, letting it free up a card below. You can then use this card at any point, however the 'temporary card store' can only hold one card, so the card in the store must be used before you can place another card in the 'temporary card store'.
How to Win Pyramid Solitaire
We all want to be winners, so let's see what tips and tricks will let you do that in Pyramid Solitaire!
- Always remove Kings as soon as possible, they do nothing except get in the way!
- See if the game is worth playing! If for example all the 6s are at the top of the pyramid, with all the sevens below it will be impossible to win the game. In the modern version of the rules with the temporary card store, there are far fewer obvious blocking conditions than when using the classic rules.
- You must look to plan your moves. So ideally each move frees up a card below that you can immediately use. The modern variation favours more planning and logic, than the classic variation which is much more based on luck.
- Assuming you are playing to the rule of removing just the pyramid, then removing cards in the pyramid is almost always preferable! But if you are playing to remove every single card, it is often necessary to take the effort to split the removal of cards from the lower 3 card deal, while looking at the pyramid to avoid the blocking conditions mentioned previously.
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