FreeCell is the most popular game in Pretty Good Solitaire. But there are many other FreeCell type games that are also interesting to play.
Let's look at 7 of them:
1) Sea Towers
Sea Towers is one of the best and most popular of FreeCell type games. It expands the tableau to 10 piles but restricts moving to down in suit instead of alternate color. Like FreeCell, it is almost always winnable and provides a challenging alternative to FreeCell.
How to Play Sea Towers Solitaire
2) Eight Off
EIght Off is another popular FreeCell type game. It has only 8 piles and building is down in suit, but there are 8 cells instead of 4. Again, it is almost always winnable and is easier than FreeCell.
How to Play Eight Off Solitaire
3) Penguin
Penguin, invented by David Parlett, is one of the best FreeCell type games. It is similar to Eight Off, but 3 cards start the game in the foundation piles and the remaining card of the same rank is buried at the bottom of the first pile. This makes Penguin a challenging game.
4) Double FreeCell
Double FreeCell is my two deck version of FreeCell. The extra cards make for a more complicated game, but it is still possible to win nearly every time.
5) Antares
Antares is an original game I invented that has become quite popular. It combines the rules of FreeCell with the rules of the game Scorpion, one on each side of the tableau.
6) Challenge FreeCell
Challenge FreeCell is an attempt to make the basic game FreeCell harder to win. It is exactly the same as FreeCell, except the Aces and Twos are all buried at the bottom of each pile. This means you have to extract all of them first before you will be able to get very far on the foundation piles.
7) Four Colours
Four Colours is a different FreeCell type game where all of the cards are dealt to the leftmost 4 piles and there are 3 other empty ones. You then have to extract many cards that are buried deeper than in other FreeCell type games. It is an excellent change of pace from the regular FreeCell games.
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