Klondike

How to play

Goal. Build the four foundations up by suit, from the ace to the king.

• On the tableau, build down in alternating colours — a red six onto a black seven.
• Tap a card to pick it up, which takes everything fanned below it, then tap where it should go. Tapping the same card twice sends it to a foundation if it will go.
• An empty column can only be filled by a king.
• Tap the stock to turn three cards. When it runs out, tap again to turn the pile back over — as often as you like, but each pass costs points.

Scoring

• +10 for each card onto a foundation
• +5 for each card moved from the pile to the tableau
• +5 for each face-down card you turn over
• −15 for taking a card back off a foundation
• −20 for each pass through the stock
• +500 for clearing the board, and 5 points for every second left on the clock

Your score never goes below zero. The round lasts five minutes; not every deal can be cleared in that, and you keep whatever you scored when it stops.

How a pool is decided

• Choose a stake — E5, E10 or E20 — and press Play. Your stake is taken then, and you play straight away. The game is played on our servers: they hold the deal and count your score, and your device shows you the game and sends your moves.
• The clock keeps running if you leave. A run you leave part-way ends when its time is up, with the score you had. You can come back to it while it is still running.
• Your score goes into a pool the moment your run ends: the oldest pool for that game and stake that still has room and that you are not already in — or a new one. You see the pool as soon as your score is in it.
• Everyone in a pool plays the identical deal, so the only difference between scores is how each person played it. You are never given a deal you have played before.
• A pool pays the moment it has 5 scores, from 5 different players. The highest score is first and receives 50% of the pot, second 30% and third 10%; the platform keeps 10%. If two scores are equal, whoever finished first ranks higher.
• A pool that does not have its 5 scores 6 hours after its first is cancelled, and every stake in it comes back in full.
• If our side lets you down — the game never opens on your device, or our server restarts in the middle of your run — your stake comes back in full.
• Where a game pays for time left on the clock, it pays only when you finish the game — never when you get stuck, bust or run out of moves.
• Practice is free, up to 10 times a day in each game: your own board, with nothing staked and nothing ranked.
• Winnings land in your Crazy8s wallet, and you can move them to your mobile money whenever you want.