Rosamund's Bower Solitaire

Choose a waste heap carefully

A drawn card that cannot be built can go onto any waste heap. That choice controls which cards will remain accessible. Use View heap to inspect the cards beneath its top before covering a useful rank.

Read the Rosamund's Bower strategy guide

Choose the next deal order

The redeal selector lists the heaps in the order they will be dealt. For example, 2 → 1 → 3 deals all of heap 2 first, then heap 1, then heap 3. Within each heap the bottom card comes first. Empty heaps are skipped.

Only the waste is collected. The guards, reserve, foundation, Henry, and Rosamund stay in place.

Card controls

Select a card and click a highlighted destination, or drag it there. Double-clicking moves a card with exactly one legal destination. Tab, Enter, and Space provide the same choices by keyboard.

Undo restores refills and redeals too. Restart uses the same seed; a URL such as ?seed=123 reproduces that deal.

Related games

Rosamund's Bower is part of The Greenway · Waste-pile builders.

More Waste-pile builders games

• Sir Tommy — Deal one at a time to four waste piles.
• Colours — Six waste piles, building by colour with wraparound.
• Lady Betty — Six waste piles, building by suit with wraparound.
• Last Chance — A Sir Tommy relative with seven piles and one concealed reserve card.
• Puss in the Corner — Build by color around four corner waste piles, with one ordered redeal.
• Strategy — Assign each drawn card to eight piles before the foundation phase begins.

Also try

• Beleaguered Castle (Castle games) — Eight columns flanking four aces.
• Canfield (Canfield family) — Compact reserve patience with wrap-around foundations.
• La Belle Lucie (Fans (La Belle Lucie)) — Eighteen fans, strict suit-down building.

Learn

• Rosamund’s Bower specialist strategy
• How Waste-pile builders games work
• Terms: Reserve · Base rank · Wraparound · No tableau building · Redeal
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