Rules for Whitehead

Family: Klondike
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Variants: Whitehead Easy
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Whitehead is another member of the Klondike family, with some of the flavor of Spider.

Layout

There are four foundations, which are initially empty. There are seven tableau piles, fanned down. The first tableau starts with one card, the second with two cards, and so on to the seventh, which starts with seven cards. All tableau cards are face up. The remaining cards are kept face down in the hand.

Play

Tableaus build down, following color (red on red and black on black). Full builds in suit are available for play on other tableaus. The top card of the wastepile may also be built onto the tableaus. Only Kings or builds whose bottom card is a King may be played to an empty tableau pile.

Foundations build up in suit. Top cards of tableaus and wastepile are available for building onto the foundations. Only an Ace may be played to an empty foundation.

Dealing

You may deal at any time by taking one card from the hand and turning it face up onto the wastepile. There are no redeals: when the hand is empty, dealing is no longer allowed.

Goal

The goal is to move all the cards onto the foundations.

Tips

Build the foundations evenly: don’t play up a black 8 until you’re sure you won’t need to put a black 7 on it to make progress in the tableaus.
Play cards from the hand before playing from the tableau.
Try to place Kings in empty tableau piles; an unplaced King in the discard pile can block everything below it.
Try hard to expose underlying cards in the tableaus, to get them in order.