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About FreeCell

FreeCell is the patience game where nothing is hidden. All 52 cards are dealt face up across eight columns, and four free cells give you somewhere to park a card while you rearrange the board. Because you can see everything, luck plays almost no part — a deal you lose is a deal you misplayed.

Practically every FreeCell deal is solvable. That makes it the thinking player's solitaire: there is no shuffle to blame and no stock to hope for, only the question of whether you can find the ordering.

The counter in the corner shows how many cards you can currently shift in one move. That number is not arbitrary — it is your free cells plus one, doubled for every empty column, and learning to read it is most of learning FreeCell.

How to play

1. Build the four foundations up by suit from Ace to King.
2. In the columns, stack downward in alternating colours — a black 5 goes on a red 6.
3. The four cells at the top left hold one card each, for as long as you need.
4. Any card may be moved into an empty column, not just a King.
5. You can move several cards at once, but only as many as you could have moved one at a time through your free cells — the Max move counter shows the current limit.
6. You win when all 52 cards reach the foundations.

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Tips & strategy

• Empty columns are worth far more than empty cells: each one doubles how many cards you can move at once.
• Do not fill all four cells unless the move that follows actually empties them again. A full cell row is how most losses start.
• Find your Aces and 2s early and plan the route to dig them out before you commit to anything else.
• Work on the column with the deepest buried low card. Clearing the shallow column first feels productive but rarely opens the board.
• Undo freely. FreeCell is a puzzle, and reading a line five moves deep and taking it back is the intended way to play.