What is Easthaven Solitaire?
Easthaven Solitaire is a Klondike variant with a structurally different stock mechanic. Where Klondike draws one card at a time from stock to waste, Easthaven deals the entire remaining stock in rows. The first four deals cover all seven columns; the last three cards cover columns one through three. Each deal can change several tableau tops at once.
Full rules
The 52-card deck is dealt into seven columns of three cards each (21 cards), with only the top card face-up. The remaining 31 cards form the stock.
Tableau columns build downward in alternating colors. Properly ordered alternating-color sequences can move as units. Any card or movable sequence can enter an empty column. Foundations build upward by suit from Ace to King. The stock deals four full seven-card rows and then a final three-card row. Win by moving all 52 cards to the foundations.
How Easthaven differs from Klondike
In Klondike, a stock draw reveals one new card and lets you choose whether to use it. In Easthaven, a deal row adds cards directly to several columns — there is no selective access. A poor position at deal time may see useful tableau tops covered.
Before a deal, compare available reveals and foundation moves with the information a new row could bring. The final deal affects only the first three columns, so columns four through seven remain available as destinations.
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Empty column priority
An empty column in Easthaven before a row deal means one column receives its new card as a standalone top — which is often useful, since a single card is more likely to be sequenceable than a card buried under a mixed stack.
An empty column can hold any card, giving more flexibility than Klondike. A stock deal will cover it if the column is among those receiving a card, so decide whether to use it before dealing.
How Easthaven compares
- Klondike — one card drawn at a time from stock to waste; individual card access
- Westcliff — three-card opening per column, draw-three stock; no row deals
- Agnes — reserve pile, base-rank foundations, row deals to reserve not columns
- Yukon — no stock at all; all cards dealt up front, group-move freedom
Easthaven is part of Downtown · Klondike family and is a variant of Klondike.
More Klondike family games
- Klondike — The patience everyone knows. Draw 1 or 3.
- Agnes — Klondike-family with reserve deals and a variable base.
- Gargantua — Two-deck Klondike: 9 columns, 8 foundations.
- Kuiper — Triangular eight-column Klondike variant.
- Las Vegas Solitaire — Draw-one Klondike with a single pass through the stock.
- Nine Across — Nine-column Klondike with picked base rank.
Also try
- Gaps (Grid & sequence puzzles) — Fill four rows of gaps to build 2–K suit runs. No aces, three passes.
- Seahaven Towers (FreeCell & open packers) — FreeCell cousin: ten columns, same-suit builds, two cells.
- Beleaguered Castle (Castle games) — Eight columns flanking four aces.
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