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About Crescent Solitaire

Crescent Solitaire arranges sixteen small piles in a crescent around eight foundations, and asks you to build those foundations both up (ace to king) and down (king to ace) in suit. Only the top card of each crescent pile is available, but you can shift the whole crescent around — three times per game — to bring buried cards into play.

It is harder than Klondike and more deliberate. Every move opens or closes options in a pile you may need later, and the three shuffles are a resource you have to spend carefully rather than a rescue.

How to play Crescent Solitaire

Move a card

Click a card, then the pile to move it to (or drag)

Shuffle the crescent

The shuffle button — limited uses

Undo / restart

The buttons under the board

1. Eight foundations start in the middle: four build up from ace, four build down from king, each in one suit.
2. The crescent piles around them offer their top card only.
3. Move available cards onto the foundations, or onto other crescent piles in sequence and suit to dig deeper.
4. Use a shuffle to rotate the crescent when you're stuck — you get three.
5. Clear every card to the foundations to win.

Crescent Solitaire tips

• Work both directions on the same suit at once; a card stranded in the middle of a sequence is what usually loses the game.
• Move cards between crescent piles to uncover, not just to tidy.
• Save at least one shuffle for the endgame — the last few buried cards are where games are won.
• Don't automatically send every playable card to a foundation; sometimes it is more useful on a crescent pile.

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