Playing FreeCell
by redllar
Winning
The game is won when all of the cards are moved to the Foundation, with a pile built for each card suit type, and with each pile in Ace to King rank order.
The Layout

- 4 Foundation piles at the top right
- 4 Reserve piles at the top left
- 8 Tableau piles on the second row, below the Foundation and Reserve
The Deal
8 Tableau piles are created by dealing cards from the hidden Stock. Each pile is dealt one face up card at a time until all cards have been dealt.
Game Play
You may move any uncovered Ace to any empty Foundation pile.
You may move any uncovered card to the top of a Foundation pile if that card is of the same suit and is next in ascending rank order.
You may move any uncovered card to any empty Tableau pile.
You may move any uncovered card to any empty Reserve pile.
You may move any stack of cards from a Tableau pile to the end of another Tableau pile if the first card in the moved stack of cards is of a different suit color and is next in descending rank order, or if the destination Tableau pile is empty. The stack of cards must also be in alternating suit color and descending rank order. For hard play, this type of move is further restricted to a stack of cards that may have been moved one at a time, using the available empty Tableau and Reserve piles or "free cells" to perform the moves.
Notes
Moves from a Foundation pile to a Tableau or a Reserve pile are allowed.
Decks
1 deck.
Difficulty
Easy play is fairly easy. Hard play is fairly hard.
Strategy
Try to keep as many empty cells as possible.
Easy Play
You may move any sized stack of correctly ordered Tableau cards, regardless of whether there are enough free cells to allow the move.
Hard Play
You may only move a stack of correctly ordered Tableau cards that may have been moved one at a time, using the available free cells to perform the moves.