Solitaire Réfléchi

Solitaire Réfléchi rules and strategy

Klondike played with the cards face up: all cards in the seven columns are visible from the start; only the stock remains face down. This site explains the app's exact rules, strategy and winning games verified card by card. To play: Solitaire Réfléchi, on iPhone, iPad and Android.

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Available on the App Store and on Google Play.

Solitaire Réfléchi on a phone held in landscape orientation, at the start of a game on green felt: the blue-backed stock, the empty waste, the four empty foundations and seven columns of one to seven cards, all face up; time, score and move count all at zero.

The game in a few lines

Solitaire Réfléchi is played solo with a deck of 52 cards, like Klondike: 28 cards form 7 columns of 1 to 7 cards, and the other 24 remain face down in the stock. The difference: in the columns, all cards are face up from the start. The goal is still to move all 52 cards onto 4 foundations, one per suit, from ace to king.

In the columns, place a card on a card of the opposite color and one rank higher: a black 9 on a red 10. Since nothing is hidden in the columns, you can plan several moves ahead. The rules detail each move, and the strategy explains how to approach the game.

A deal from the app

Here is the deal with code TF1-D1N-AAABGHG, the one shown in the app screenshots, as initially dealt. Paste this code into the New Game window to play it; a winning game completed in 144 actions is detailed on the Examples page.

Face-down stock: 24 cards; waste empty. Foundations, cards placed: 0 spades, 0 hearts, 0 diamonds, 0 clubs. Column 1: 10 of diamonds; column 2: 6 of spades, king of hearts; column 3: 5 of diamonds, 2 of hearts, ace of clubs; column 4: jack of spades, jack of diamonds, 7 of clubs, 9 of hearts; column 5: 4 of spades, king of diamonds, 3 of spades, 9 of spades, 6 of hearts; column 6: 4 of diamonds, 10 of hearts, ace of hearts, queen of spades, queen of diamonds, 5 of hearts; column 7: 8 of hearts, 7 of hearts, 6 of clubs, ace of spades, 6 of diamonds, 2 of clubs, king of clubs.

Deal TF1-D1N-AAABGHG at the start: columns of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 cards, all face up, with 24 face-down cards in the stock.

Where to start?

On phone and tablet

The app is played in landscape orientation. It offers a draw of 1 or 3 cards, a code for each game to replay or share a deal, undo for the last 100 actions and statistics.

Solitaire Réfléchi on a phone in landscape orientation, during a draw-3 game: the waste fans out its last three cards (7 of spades, 9 of diamonds, 5 of clubs), three cards have been moved to the foundations, and all cards in the columns are face up.
Phone, landscape orientation, draw 3.
Solitaire Réfléchi on a tablet in landscape orientation: the same deal at the start, seven columns with every card face up, a blue-backed stock and empty foundations.
Tablet, in landscape orientation.