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• Black Hole Solitaire — rules and strategy — How to play Black Hole Solitaire: seventeen fans of three cards, one rank up or down from the card in the hole, no stock and nothing hidden. Strategy, winnable share and Black Hole in Decks for iPhone.
• Double Klondike — two-deck solitaire with nine columns — Rules of Double Klondike, the two-deck version of classic solitaire with nine columns and eight foundations, how it differs from single-deck Klondike, strategy, and how to play it in Decks for iPhone.
• FreeCell Solitaire — rules, moves and strategy — How to play FreeCell: eight columns, four free cells, four foundations, how many cards you may move at once, strategy that wins, and why nearly every deal is solvable. FreeCell in Decks for iPhone.
• Golf Solitaire — rules and strategy — How to play Golf Solitaire: seven columns of five, one rank up or down from the waste, no wrap from king to ace, one pass of the deck. Strategy and Golf in Decks for iPhone.
• Klondike Solitaire — rules, five levels and strategy — How to play Klondike, the classic solitaire: seven columns, four foundations, one card at a time with five redeals. The five levels in Decks from five columns to two decks, strategy, and what published solver studies say about winnable deals.
• Memo — the memory card game, four sizes — The classic memory matching game with playing cards: open two, keep the pairs, remember the rest. Four board sizes from ten to twenty-six pairs, strategy, and how to play it in Decks for iPhone.
• Pyramid Solitaire — rules, levels and strategy — How to play Pyramid Solitaire: pairs that add up to thirteen, which cards are available, what the three levels in Decks change, and strategy for the first rows.
• Spanish Solitaire — Klondike with a 40-card Spanish deck — Spanish Solitaire is Klondike played with a real Spanish deck: forty cards, four suits with no colours, no eights, nines or queens. Rules, the three levels in Decks, strategy, and why it plays differently from the French-deck game.
• Spider Solitaire — 1, 2 and 4 suits — How to play Spider Solitaire with one, two or four suits, what changes between them, and strategy that actually helps. Spider in Decks for iPhone.
• Tower of Hanoi — with cards, three or four places, plus Two Towers — Tower of Hanoi played with cards: move the tower one card at a time, a lower card only onto a higher one. Minimum moves for three to twelve cards, the four-place variant where the rule of thumb stops working, and Two Towers, the red-and-black swap puzzle. In Decks for iPhone.
• TriPeaks Solitaire — rules and strategy — How to play TriPeaks Solitaire: three peaks of twenty-eight cards, one rank up or down from the waste, king and ace as neighbours, one pass of the deck. Strategy and TriPeaks in Decks for iPhone.
• Yukon Solitaire — rules and strategy — Yukon Solitaire rules: mixed visibility, no stock, any face-up pack on alternating-colour builds, Ace→King foundations. Yukon in Decks for iPhone.

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Guides

• Is every solitaire deal winnable? The published numbers, game by game — What published solver studies say about winnable deals in Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Black Hole and Golf, with sources.
• Solitaire without ads on iPhone — what "no ads" actually means, and how to check — How to find a solitaire app for iPhone that really has no ads and no account and works offline. A checklist you can run on any app in the App Store — and how Decks answers each point.
• Tower of Hanoi: Puzzle, Card Games & Variants — What Tower of Hanoi is, how the card solitaire differs, Four pegs & Two Towers, and where to play — including Decks for iPhone. Sources dated.
• Which solitaire to play — four rule axes, not a flowchart — Four rule axes for any solitaire: goal, information, layout flexibility, and round length — classic names as spectrum examples, plus an embeddable chart.

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