Setup and opening position
Four Aces and four Kings seed the foundations. Eight reserves receive four cards each, one card starts the waste, and sixty-three cards form the stock.
Alhambra
Move all 104 cards onto the eight outward suited foundations.
Loading game
Stats on this device
Your unfinished game is saved only in this browser.
- Played
- 0
- Wins
- 0
- Win rate
- —
- Fastest win
- —
- Fewest moves
- —
- Best score
- —
- Current streak
- 0 days
- Best streak
- 0 days
How to play
Move all 104 cards onto the eight outward suited foundations.
- Four Aces and four Kings seed the foundations. Eight reserves receive four cards each, one card starts the waste, and sixty-three cards form the stock.
- An exposed reserve or waste card may advance its same-suit outward foundation. A reserve top may instead build one rank up or down in the same suit on the waste, with rank wrap. The stock has three passes.
- Move all 104 cards onto the eight outward suited foundations.
Strategy tips
- Build short same-suit ladders on the waste only when they uncover a reserve card needed by either outward foundation.
- Waste building must keep the suit and differ by exactly one wrapped rank; it is not a general alternating up-and-down tableau.
- Use the last pass to unwind the waste toward a waiting foundation while clearing the deepest cards of all eight reserves.
Complete guide
Rules, scoring, and strategy
Alhambra is a complete browser implementation with its own versioned rules profile. Release eight four-card reserves into paired Ace-up and King-down foundations, using the waste as a suited bidirectional build pile.
Legal moves and game flow
An exposed reserve or waste card may advance its same-suit outward foundation. A reserve top may instead build one rank up or down in the same suit on the waste, with rank wrap. The stock has three passes.
Winning and terminal positions
Move all 104 cards onto the eight outward suited foundations. Use the last pass to unwind the waste toward a waiting foundation while clearing the deepest cards of all eight reserves.
Practical strategy
Build short same-suit ladders on the waste only when they uncover a reserve card needed by either outward foundation. Waste building must keep the suit and differ by exactly one wrapped rank; it is not a general alternating up-and-down tableau.
Questions players ask
What is the objective in Alhambra?
Move all 104 cards onto the eight outward suited foundations.
Which moves are legal in Alhambra?
An exposed reserve or waste card may advance its same-suit outward foundation. A reserve top may instead build one rank up or down in the same suit on the waste, with rank wrap. The stock has three passes.
What should I plan first in Alhambra?
Build short same-suit ladders on the waste only when they uncover a reserve card needed by either outward foundation.
Related games
FreeCellUse four open cells to reorganize a fully visible deal and build every suit onto its foundation.Beleaguered CastleBuild four suited foundations from a fully exposed eight-column deal, using empty columns and rank-only tableau moves to free blocked cards.Four SeasonsBuild wrapping suited foundations from a random base rank around a five-card cross, with rank-only wrapping tableau piles.Cruel SolitaireBuild suited foundations from twelve four-card piles, using same-suit descents and order-preserving packet redeals to reopen the layout.
