Easthaven Solitaire
Added 02/2026
Easthaven Solitaire: The Brilliant Blend of Klondike and Spider
By Martin Petroff
What happens when you take the world's most popular card game and forcefully merge it with the mechanics of its most intimidating boss battle? You get Easthaven Solitaire. This fantastic variation is the ultimate hybrid, taking the familiar alternating-color building and foundation piles of Klondike, but injecting it with the brutal, block-dealing stockpile mechanics of Spider Solitaire. It completely removes the safety net of a waste pile, forcing you to bury your carefully organized columns under a fresh layer of random cards every time you run out of moves. It is a phenomenal, highly dynamic puzzle that forces you to constantly adapt your strategy on the fly.
How to Play
Because it is a hybrid, learning Easthaven is incredibly simple if you already know the basics of Klondike and Spider. The real challenge comes from managing the messy tableau as the game progresses.
The Objective: Your goal is exactly the same as Klondike: move all 52 cards into four "Foundation" piles at the top of the board, building them up by suit from Ace to King.
The Setup (The Tableau):
Shuffle a standard 52-card deck.
Deal the cards into seven columns from left to right.
Every single column receives exactly 3 cards: the first 2 are dealt face down, and the top card is dealt face up. (You now have 21 cards on the board).
The remaining 31 cards form your face-down Stockpile at the bottom of the board. There is no waste pile in this game!
How to Play:
Building the Columns: Just like Klondike, you build down the tableau columns in descending order and alternating colors (for example, placing a red 5 onto a black 6).
Moving Stacks: You can move entire sequences of face-up cards together, provided they are correctly stacked in alternating colors.
The Spider Draw: Here is where the game shows its teeth. When you are completely out of moves, you click the Stockpile. Instead of flipping a card into a waste pile, you will deal one face-up card to the bottom of every single column (7 cards total). This will bury your previously playable cards, forcing you to dig them out again!
The Final Deal: Because your stockpile has 31 cards, your final draw will only have 3 cards remaining. These are simply dealt to the first three columns on the left.
Revealing Cards: Whenever a face-down card at the bottom of a column is fully exposed, flip it face up to put it into play.
Empty Columns: Unlike Klondike's strict King-only rule, if you manage to completely clear one of your seven columns in Easthaven, you can move any single card (or any valid sequence of cards) into that empty space. Guard these spaces with your life—they are essential for untangling your board after a messy draw!