Golf Solitaire Classic

Named after golf, the sport, the goal of this patience card game is to earn the lowest number of points over the course of nine deals. Golf solitaire card game has the highest skill to luck level among the other patience games, such as Freecell, Klondike solitaire game or Spider solitaire.

Golf solitaire is played with a standard deck of 52 cards. The set up is as following: there are 7 columns of 5 cards each, face up ('the tableau'). At the base of the foundation, there is one additional card dealt. The remaining 16 cards are lying face down to form the stock.

The rules of salitair golf are as follows:

Player can remove only the topmost card in each column. Once it is removed, next card that is lying beneath becomes available to play.

Player can move cards from the tableau to the foundation, if the card is either one rank higher or on rank lower than the foundation's top card. Card suit does not matter. No card can be played on top of a King.

Cards rank from Ace to King. There's no wrapping (e,g, Ace on a King, or King on an Ace) in golf solitaire.

When there are no possible plays,player turns cards up one by one from the stock to the foundation, and when it is becomes possible, resumes playing cards from the tableau.

Golf solitaire card game has no redeal. If there no more moves are available, and the stock is exhausted, the game is over.

Scoring in golf solitaire is as follows:

Each card remaining in the tableau by the moment when the game is over, brings one point to a player. If the tableau is cleared, player scores a negative point for every card left in the stock. Game has nine deals, and the score of 45 or lower is considered par, with a score of zero or lower being perfect.