How To Play Soulitaire | Ikoni Studio

OBJECTIVE

The objective of the game is to move all 52 cards to the top to the 4 Foundations. Once all 52 cards are moved the game is won.

GAME BASICS

Card Rank

The rank of cards is as follows: King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and Ace.

Card Deck

The Card Deck located at the top of the game board. The cards are displayed face down in the Card Deck. When players tap the Card Deck the card is flipped to face up and moved to the Waste Pile.

Card Deck

The Waste Pile is located next to the Card Deck. Players can move a card from the Waste Pile to either a Foundation or a Pile in the Table (if a move is available).

Foundations

The Foundations are the 4 Piles located next to the Waste Pile. Starting with an Ace, Players stack cards on to the Foundation by moving cards from either the Waste Pile of the Table Piles.

Main Table

The Main Table contains 7 piles. Cards can be stacked and moved from Pile to Pile or from Pile to Foundation.

CARD DEAL

Cards are initially dealt into 7 Piles. The 1st Pile gets 1 card, the 2nd Pile gets 2 Cards, the 3rd Pile gets 3 cards and so on with the final 7th pile recieving 7. The last card in each pile is displayed face-up with the remaining cards face-down. The balance of the cards in the deck are initially placed face-down in the Card Deck.

RULES OF MOVEMENT

A Foundation can only accept cards from a one suit, staring with an Ace. For example, if a player moves an Ace of Spades to a particular Foundation, the subsequent cards moved to that Foundation must also be Spades. Extending the example, the next card the player could move to that Foundation would be the 2 of Spades, followed by the 3, then 4 and 5 and so on ending with the King of Spades.

Unlike the Foundation, the cards in 7 Piles can be different suits. The cards are stacked in descending order, e.g. King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8 and so on. When stacking cards in the Piles, the card's suits must alternate by color, for example:

Player can stack a 4 of Clubs (Black) on top of a 5 of Hearts (Red)
Player can stack a 5 of Hearts (Red) on top of a 6 of Spades (Black)
Player can stack a 6 of Spades (Black) on top of a 7 of Diamonds (Red)

When a Pile becomes empty after all of its cards are stacked elsewhere, a King can be moved to the empty space and stacking in that pile can begin again. Note that only Kings can be moved to an empty Pile.

Cards from the Waste Pile can be moved and stacked on to either a Foundation or a Pile in the Table. If there is no card available for the Waste Card to be stacked on top of, the player can tap the Card Deck to move another card to the Waste Pile.