Aces Up Solitaire

Aces Up is a type of Solitaire card game where the goal is to move all cards to the foundation pile, leaving only the four aces on the tableau piles. Wins are rare since a lot of luck is involved in getting the right cards in the right order.

How to Play Aces Up Solitaire

Rules

• Only the top card from each tableau can be moved at a time.
• When there are at least two playable cards of the same suit in the tableau, discard all but the highest-ranked cards to the foundation. For example, if there are 2♥️, 6♥️, and 10♥️, you can remove both the 2♥️ and 6♥️. You can’t remove the 10♥️ since there must be at least two open cards of the same suit to make a move.
• Ace is considered the highest-ranked card, so a King is of lower rank than an Ace.
• You can’t discard an Ace to the foundation.
• Any card can be placed in an empty tableau slot.
• Four cards are dealt at a time from the stock, 1 card to each tableau.

Objective

The goal in Aces Up is to discard all cards to the foundation pile, leaving only one ace in each tableau pile. Aces are the lowest rank and should not be moved to the foundation.

Setup

Aces Up Solitaire uses a standard deck of 52 cards and the game is setup as follows:

• There are 4 tableau piles. At the beginning, 1 card is dealt face up to each tableau pile.
• The remaining 48 cards are added to the stock pile.
• There is only one foundation.