Solitaire

Klondike · patience

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Rules

The deal. Seven piles, one card in the first and seven in the last, with the top card of each face up. The other twenty-four cards go to the stock in the corner.
The object is to build all four suits up from ace to king on the four foundations — 52 cards home and the game is won.
On the piles cards build down in rank and alternating in colour: a red six goes on a black seven. You may move a single card or a whole properly-ordered run at once.
An empty pile takes a king, and nothing else — which is why freeing one is worth so much.
Turning a card over at the top of a pile, whenever the card on it moves away, is free and always good.
The stock turns over one card at a time, or three at a time if you choose, to the waste beside it; only the top card of the waste is in play. When the stock runs out the waste turns back over and you start again — as often as you like, or three times only if you set it that way.
Cards may come back off a foundation onto a pile if you need them there, though it costs you points.

How to win more often

Turn face-down cards over first. A move that exposes a new card is nearly always better than one that does not — the cards you cannot see are the ones losing you the game.
Empty a column early. An empty pile is the most valuable thing on the table, but only if you have a king to put in it; freeing one with no king in sight can leave you stuck.
Do not rush cards home. A five on a foundation cannot come back cheaply, and low cards are often needed on the piles to receive others. Send aces and twos up at once, and take your time with the rest.
Play the waste before you draw again in a three-card game — the cards behind it only come round again after a full pass.
Prefer the move that keeps options open. Where two piles could take the same card, the one that frees a card underneath is the one to use.

Scoring

A card from the waste onto a pile: +5. A card home to a foundation: +10. Turning a face-down card over: +5.
Taking a card back off a foundation: −15. Turning the waste back over in a one-card game: −100.
Finishing quickly is worth a bonus, so the clock is worth watching once the game is clearly won.

Move	Points
Waste → pile	+5
Waste or pile → foundation	+10
Face-down card turned over	+5
Foundation → pile	−15
Waste turned back over (one-card draw)	−100

About the deals

Only deal games that can be won hands every deal to a solver first, and keeps shuffling until it finds one it can prove is winnable. Most shuffles are, so this takes a moment at most.
The solver plays the game with the deal face up — what solitaire writers call thoughtful play — searching the same moves you have, keeping a note of positions it has already tried, and sending cards home when they can no longer be needed below. It never takes a card back off a foundation, so anything it proves winnable really is.
The hint uses the same search. If it can find a winning line from where you are, it shows you the next move on it and says so — and it keeps to that line while you follow it, rather than changing its mind every time you ask. If it cannot, it suggests the most useful move it can see instead, which is not the same promise.
Turn the option off and you get an honest shuffle, winnable or not, the way a pack of cards actually behaves.