The deal
Start with the eight St. Helena foundation bases and one exposed card on each of twelve piles; keep the rest in stock.
Layout, cross & clock-face games · Clocktower
Louis Solitaire
Start with the eight St. Helena foundation bases and one exposed card on each of twelve piles; keep the rest in stock.
Seed143633
Moves0
Timer00:00
Stock84
Statusin progress
Streak0
Select a card, then choose a highlighted destination.
Playing the cards
Every pile may feed either matching foundation immediately. Fill a vacancy from stock during the opening, then deal the remaining stock over the twelve piles. Tableau cards build one rank up or down in suit.
Goal and first plan
Complete four descending King and four ascending Ace foundations.
Use the sparse opening to transfer cards directly to foundations. Each card played early gives another stock card a chance to appear in its place.
Related games
Louis is part of Clocktower · Layout, cross & clock-face games and is a variant of St. Helena. One card starts each pile, all foundations accept cards immediately, and the stock fills the board later.
More Layout, cross & clock-face games games
- St. Helena — Build four King foundations down and four Ace foundations up from twelve surrounding piles.
- Box Kite — St. Helena without foundation restrictions or redeals.
- Windmill — Center and corner foundations, windmill layout.
- Big Ben — Clock-face foundations building by suit.
- Braid — Herringbone layout feeding eight foundations.
- Long Braid — Twenty-four braid cards and six cells open to the braid tip.
Also try
- Emperor — Two-deck Forty Thieves relative with waste play.
- Intrigue — Eight Queen columns; eight Five-piles built down to the King and eight Six-piles built up to the Jack, regardless of suit.
- Milligan Cell — Four free cells add temporary storage to Miss Milligan’s eight columns.