Move all 52 cards to the foundations, using the free cells and empty columns to plan sequences.
Move all 52 cards to the foundations, using the free cells and empty columns to plan sequences.
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FreeCell reveals the whole deal at the start, making it a planning puzzle rather than a search for hidden cards. Four cells and empty tableau columns provide the temporary space needed to reorganize the deck.
Build downward in alternating colors and send suits to foundations from Ace upward. Each occupied free cell reduces how many ordered cards can move together. An empty tableau column increases capacity even more, so protect it until it serves a clear plan.
Each foundation card adds ten points, for 520 on a complete win. Local records separately preserve time and moves. Low-move solutions usually come from releasing buried Aces without repeatedly parking cards in cells.
Do not fill all four cells without an exit route. Avoid burying a low foundation card beneath a long sequence. A card moved to a foundation can also remove a useful tableau connector, so check the opposite color below it first.
Find the lowest buried Aces and Twos, identify what blocks them, and count available spaces before moving a long run. Replay a numbered deal to compare move orders without changing the layout.
Most familiar computer deals are solvable, but not every mathematically possible shuffle is. Random deals on this site do not claim guaranteed solutions.
Transfer capacity depends on empty cells and empty tableau columns. With less temporary space, the sequence must be moved in smaller steps.
Safe low cards usually can, but keep a card in the tableau when it is still needed to support an opposite-color sequence.