Aces Up



How to Play Solitare: Aces Up

No. of Decks: 1

No. of Redeals: None

Family: Discarding

Play Duration: Short

Difficulty: Hard

Aim: Move all cards except Aces to the Foundation

Details: Aces are the highest of value, lowest is 2

Foundation

- Indicated by the symbol "Target" - Tapped lower valued cards are moved here

Tableau

- Contains 4 columns of cards - Only top cards can be tapped to move to the Foundation - Among the top cards, tap least valued card of the same suit until one card of each suit are left from the top cards - An empty tableau column can be filled with any top card from the other tableau columns

Stock

- Indicated by the faced down cards - Whenever all possible plays have been made, a new set of four cards (one for each column) are dealt, until all cards from the Stock are faced up and moved to the Tableau

Scoring

- Starts at 0 point - Deducts 1 point every passing second if current score is more than zero - Adds 50 points when a card is moved to the Foundation - Undo deducts 100 points and erases the score from the action