Klondike, the solitaire that came with every computer. Build the four foundations from ace to king and the game is yours.
Draw one or draw three, a timer if you want one, and undo whenever you need it.
Build the four foundations up from ace to king, one suit each. That is the whole aim.
In the tableau, build down in alternating colours. A red six goes on a black seven, and a run of cards moves as one if the sequence is right.
Turning over a face down card is the most valuable move on the board, so prefer the move that uncovers something to the move that tidies.
An empty column takes a king, and only a king. Click the stock to deal, and double click a card to send it straight to its foundation.
Draw one turns a single card at a time and is much easier to win. Draw three turns three at a time and only the top one is playable, which is the traditional version.
No. Around eighty percent of draw one deals can be won with perfect play, and far fewer on draw three. Some hands are simply dead.
Aces and twos, yes. After that, holding a card back in the tableau is often worth more, because low cards give you somewhere to place things.
Once every card is face up and nothing is blocked, it finishes the game for you rather than making you click fifty times.
Klondike is the solitaire most people mean when they say solitaire, and shipping with Windows in 1990 made it one of the most played games in history. It was there to teach people to use a mouse.
Good play is mostly about patience with the stock. Running through the deck before committing to a move tells you what is coming, and dumping cards onto foundations early can strand the tableau.
Empty columns are powerful but expensive. Making one that you cannot fill with a king often does more harm than leaving the column alone.