Yahoo Games Klondike

The world today is brimming over with the many different types of Solitaire. You can play FreeCell solitaire, Golf Solitaire, Addiction Solitaire, Aloha Solitaire, Solitaire 13, and Super Solitaire, just to name a few. You can play with one deck, or multiple decks, and each game has its own unique blend of rules. Solitaire can be played on a simple level for children, and complexity can be added as you go up on the age barometer. Earliest known record of this brilliantly simplistic game is a book entitled Illustrated Games of Patience by Lady A. Cadogan in 1870. Many more books have been published and varieties have been born since then.

Let's not forget, though, that the most timeless version of Solitaire is the classic Klondike Solitaire. Yahoo games Klondike is a wonderful version of this immortal landmark. Enjoyed by young and old, male and female, played across all the continents, Klondike is at the base of all traditional Solitaire games. Let's take a look at Yahoo games Klondike.

Here's the basic Klondike tutorial. Your job is to build a pile for each suite ascending from Ace and to King. The cards on the table can be built in the opposite descending order (from King to two) using alternate colors. For example, if you have a red nine on the table, a black eight must be placed on top of it in order to continue building the pattern (a red seven would then go on the eight, etc.) You are given a draw pile, and seven card piles on the table. These seven piles are dealt as follows: one in the first, two in the second, three in the third, and so on through the seventh. The top card on each pile is turned face up. You can play any card that is facing up, including the card currently facing up on the draw pile. Each Ace that is uncovered should be placed to the side or above the rest of the game. These are now your foundation piles, and the beginning of your victory (you hope!)

Yahoo games Klondike gives you a few different options. There is Vegas Style vs. Normal Mode, and draw three vs. draw one. The Vegas option only allows you to flip through the deck three times during a three-card draw game and once for a one-card draw game. After that, you are on your own with the cards on the table. Drawing three cards at once will, obviously, be more challenging as it gives you much less accessibility to the cards in the deck (I know I've lost many a-games because the card I needed was one below the face card!)

Here are some Yahoo games Klondike tips: If you are playing Yahoo games Klondike for the first time, you might want to start with the one-card draw option. This gives you a chance to get to know the game and all its rules before throwing in the added challenge of three-card draw. Another tip for the fledgling Klondiker, play the normal mode until you are really comfortable with the game. This gives you the luxury of flipping through the deck indefinitely (though, if you are one for keeping score, your points decrease by twenty with each additional flip after the allotted three flips of a three-card draw game, and by one hundred points after the first flip during a one-card draw game!) When playing Vegas mode, be sure to pay close attention to which cards are in the deck as you flip through. This will give you a little more to go on when planning a strategy after you've used up your flips. Also, when using this option, check that you've played all moves on the table before continuing on to the next set in the deck. If there is a choice between playing a deck card or a table card, choose the deck card, because you don't know if you will get to see it again that game!

Klondike has been around for over 150 years, and, once you've played, you can understand why. If you've never experienced this game before, check it out: http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/ks.html and see what you've been missing!