Australian Patience Solitaire
How to play Australian Patience
Australian Patience is a one-deck solitaire that joins Yukon's moves to a stock: 28 cards are dealt face up to seven piles built down in suit, and the other 24 are turned one at a time, once through.
Seven piles of four dealt face up and built down in suit, with the stock turned one card at a time and gone through once.
The goal of Australian Patience
Move all 52 cards onto the four foundations, one for each suit, building each from Ace up to King.
How to set up Australian Patience
Australian Patience is played with one deck. Twenty-eight cards are dealt face up into seven tableau piles of four, and the other 24 cards form the stock.
Australian Patience rules
Tableau piles build down one rank at a time in the same suit. Any face-up card can move onto a pile whose top card it builds on, and every card lying on it moves with it, whether or not those cards are in order.
Only a King can fill an empty pile, together with any cards lying on it.
Turn the stock one card at a time onto the waste. Only the top waste card is in play. The stock is dealt through once, with no redeal.
Each foundation builds up by suit from the Ace to the King. A card on a foundation never comes back into play.
Click a card to play it: a top card goes to its foundation if it fits, otherwise the card and everything on it go onto the first pile it builds on, and a King into the first empty pile. The top waste card is played the same way. Drag a card to choose where it goes yourself. With Autoplay off in Settings, only a drag moves a card.
How to win at Australian Patience
You win when all 52 cards are on the foundations. Once the stock and the waste are empty and every pile is in descending order, Auto complete, on by default in Settings, moves the remaining cards up for you. The game is stuck when no card can move and turning the rest of the stock brings up nothing that can.
Australian Patience strategy tips
Every card on the table starts face up, so you can plan from the first move. Find the Kings first, since only they can fill an empty pile.
The stock goes through only once, and a waste card you cannot place is covered by the next card you turn. Before you turn, look for a move on the table that makes room for it.
Piles build in suit, so a pile in order holds one suit running down. Once its foundation holds the card one rank below the pile's top card, the whole run can go home one card at a time.
Australian Patience questions and answers
How do you play Australian Patience solitaire?
Deal seven piles of four cards face up and keep the other 24 cards as the stock. Build the piles down in suit, moving any face-up card with every card lying on it, fill an empty pile only with a King, and turn the stock one card at a time onto the waste, once through. You win when all 52 cards are on the four foundations, built up by suit from Ace to King.
What is the difference between Australian Patience and Yukon?
Australian Patience deals every card face up, four to each of seven piles, and keeps 24 cards as a stock turned one at a time, once through. Its piles build down in suit rather than in alternating colours. Moving any face-up card with everything on it, and filling an empty pile only with a King, are Yukon's rules.
Can you move cards that are out of order in Australian Patience?
Yes. You pick up a face-up card and everything lying on it, in order or not, as long as the card you picked builds on the pile it lands on. A Seven of Hearts can move onto the Eight of Hearts with a Queen of Clubs and a Two of Spades still sitting on it, and those two then have to be cleared off again from their new pile.
What is the difference between Australian Patience and Klondike?
Klondike hides most of its tableau face down, builds in alternating colours, moves only runs in order and lets you go through the stock as often as you like. Australian Patience shows all 28 tableau cards from the start, builds in suit, moves any face-up card with whatever lies on it and allows a single pass through the stock.
Can every Australian Patience deal be won?
No. Tested on 100 shuffled Australian Patience deals, the game's solver proved 23 winnable and 6 lost in the search a hint gets, and could not settle the other 71. With so few deals proved, finding one takes too long to do on demand, so every deal is an ordinary shuffle and there is no Winnable switch. The Hint button still asks the solver for a winning line before it suggests a move.
Is there a daily Australian Patience game?
Yes. Australian Patience has a daily board, the same deal for everyone that day. You need to be logged in to play it.