Flower Garden Solitaire

How to Play Flower Garden Solitaire?

Flower Garden Solitaire is a prettily designed strategic card game, offering fresh excitement with the traditional solitaire. Its name comes from the unique tableau layout that resembles a blooming garden. Played with a standard 52-card deck, this game combines strategy, patience, and just a touch of luck, which makes it a favorite among those who plan their moves ahead of time in other solitaire versions.

To set up Flower Garden Solitaire, the deck is shuffled and six tableau piles are dealt, each containing six cards face up. The remaining 16 cards form the "flower bed," which serves as a reserve pile and provides additional cards to play during the game. The goal is to move all the cards to the foundation piles, which are built in ascending order by suit, starting with Aces.

Cards in the tableau move down in descending order, rank by rank, but not necessarily in suit. Unlike most solitaire games, you may not move sequences of cards; you may move only one card at a time. All the reserve cards laid out in the flower bed can be used anytime, allowing players the additional flexibility to find and shift the card either in the tableau or directly in the foundation piles. However, there are no free cells in the tableau, and thus the few moves available must be carefully considered.

Flower Garden Solitaire is a fun and challenging game that requires both skill and foresight. With an open tableau and reserve pile, there is much room for strategy, while the challenge of arranging the cards keeps the game exciting. With its relaxing layout and innovative gameplay, Flower Garden Solitaire has all the ingredients a player needs in a card game when they want some quiet time: challenging yet soothing. Give it a try, and see if you can grow yourself to victory!