How to Play Easthaven Solitaire
Deal three cards to each of seven columns, two face down and one up. Build down in alternating colour, moving only genuine ordered sequences as a group. Only a King fills an empty column. The stock deals one card to every column at once instead of building a waste pile. Bank all 52 cards, Ace to King by suit, to win.
The rules, step by step
- 1Deal seven columns of threeEach column gets three cards: the bottom two face down, the top one face up. The remaining 31 cards form the stock.
- 2Build down in alternating colourA card may be placed on a card one rank higher of the opposite colour, exactly as in Klondike.
- 3Only a genuine sequence moves as a groupA run of cards can be lifted together only if it is already a properly ordered, alternating-colour sequence — there is no Yukon-style free pickup.
- 4Only a King fills an empty columnA King, or a sequence headed by one, is the only thing that may start a new column.
- 5Deal the stock to every column at onceClicking the stock deals one card face up to each of the seven columns simultaneously — refused while any column is empty.
- 6Bank all 52 cards to winFour foundations build up Ace to King in suit, exactly as in Klondike.
Try it — the rules above, running
New game deals a fresh shuffle, Hint highlights a legal move, and the three-dot menu at the end of the bar holds redo, auto-finish, today’s deal, the keyboard shortcuts and the rule set.
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Today’s deal
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Keyboard
- U / Z
- Undo
- R
- Redo
- H
- Hint
- N
- New deal (asks first)
- F
- Full screen
- Space
- Turn the stock
- A
- Auto-finish
- Esc
- Deselect, or leave full screen
What does the Easthaven deal look like?
- 1Deal the tableauThree cards to each of seven columns — the bottom two face down, the top one face up.
- 2Set the stock asideThe remaining 31 cards form a face-down stock, with no waste pile.
- 3Leave four foundations emptyOne per suit, built up from Ace as soon as one is freed.
How is the stock different from Klondike's?
There is no waste pile. Clicking the stock deals one card face up onto every tableau column simultaneously, the way Spider's stock works, and the deal is refused while any column stands empty.
How do you win more often?
- Untangle sequences before you need to move themA jumbled stack has to be broken apart one card at a time; an ordered one moves in a single click. Spend idle moves tidying columns into proper sequences before you actually need the flexibility.
- Think twice before the next stock dealEvery deal drops one unrelated card onto each column, which can break a sequence you were in the middle of building. Clear as much as you can from the tableau first.
- Guard your KingsWith sequence-only pickups, a buried King is harder to dig out than in Yukon, where any card could be moved to get at it. Try to keep at least one King reachable at all times.
- Prioritise the columns that started with only three cardsEvery column began this small, and none of them has the depth Klondike's seventh column does — a card that looks stuck in Easthaven can often be freed in far fewer moves than the same situation would take elsewhere.
Common questions about easthaven solitaire
- Can you always move a run of cards together in Easthaven?
- Only if it is already a proper alternating-colour sequence. A jumbled stack has to be moved one legal card at a time until it becomes one.
- Who invented Easthaven?
- Easthaven is credited to Thomas Warfield, designed as a Yukon sibling with a stricter pickup rule and a Spider-style stock deal in place of Yukon's front-loaded tableau.
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