Czarina strategy
Czarina opens with a different base card on each suit foundation, five one-card tableau positions, and a 43-card stock. Tableau cards build down by rank without suit or color limits, one card at a time. Vacating a tableau position draws a replacement from the stock while cards remain. You can also draw one card manually to the waste, with no redeal.
Last updated: September 2026
Plan around each suit's next card
Each foundation follows its own starting rank and builds up in suit, wrapping from King to Ace. Compare the exposed card with its suit foundation, not with a single shared base rank. A tableau card that cannot go to foundation may still move onto a card one rank higher in another column.
Choose a vacancy for its refill
Moving a tableau top to a foundation or another tableau pile empties its former position. The game immediately fills that position from stock when possible. This reveals a new card but consumes one stock card that might otherwise have reached waste. A waste card moving to foundation does not trigger a tableau refill.
A short position
Constructed position: the Hearts foundation ends at Six. Seven of Hearts can advance it. If Seven of Hearts is the sole card in a tableau position, playing it immediately refills that position from stock; if it is on the waste, that tableau position stays unchanged. The foundation move is legal in both cases, but the next exposed card differs.
Read the related guide
The Canfield guide explains wrapping foundation sequences. Czarina's four independently seeded foundations and automatic tableau refills change which card to expose next.