You can play several card games and one of them is a Pyramid Solitaire. This is also a fun card game to play just like Freecell Solitaire. The difference is that you have to manage the tableau or the deck into a pyramid instead of a straight line. Read the detail below before playing this card game.
About Pyramid Solitaire
Pyramid Solitaire is a card game where the player sets a pyramid from 28 cards. The objective is to remove all the cards from the pyramid. The way to remove the cards is by removing a pair of cards that have a value of 13. For example, you can remove 8-heart card and 5-heart card because the total is 13. If there is no card to remove on the pyramid, you can open one card from the close card deck and find the pair.
How to Play Pyramid Solitaire?
This card game is using the standard 52-card deck. After mixing the cards, you can create a pyramid from the card. Start by opening one card as the top of the pyramid. Open two more cards and put below the first card and so on, until you see a pyramid. The pyramid is only using 28 cards. Put the rest of the card close because you still use them. Second, find a pair of cards where the value is 13 from the first row. Third, remove the cards and find other cards with the same value and do it until all the cards are removed. If you can’t find the cards on the pyramid, open the rest of the cards on the closed card deck.
The Rules of Pyramid Solitaire
Allowable Moves
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You need to understand the rule before playing the Pyramid Solitaire. The rule is about the value of the cards. The number on the cards is the value of the card itself. So, how about a specific card such as AS, King, Queen, and Jack? The value of AS is 1 whereas the value of Jack is 11 and Queen is 12. The King card has a value of 13. Moreover, if you open the closed card deck and you find a pair of cards with the value of 13, you can also remove it. You can only remove the open cards. If the cards are closed by other cards it means you can’t remove them yet although you find the pair.
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The Way to Win in Pyramid Solitaire
You have to remove all the cards whether from the pyramid solitaire card game as well as the closed card deck. If you can do it you win the game. If there is no other pair of cards you can remove, you can restart the game and you lose.
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. Qpst configuration. 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 :)