How to Play the Four Corners Cards

The game of Four Corners Solitaire takes its name from the shape of the layout. It's a fun solitaire game that has a fairly high success rate. Build each suit in ascending order starting with the ace as the low card in this game. The following steps will show you how to play Four Corner Solitaire.

Things You'll Need

• Deck of cards with jokers removed

Instructions

1. Remove all four aces from the deck and lay them face up on the four corners of your playing area on a table. These will be your foundation piles.

2. Shuffle the deck and place four random cards face up on the corners of each ace on the table. Place the rest of the cards in the middle of the table in a stack face down.

3. Look for deuces (the "twos") from among the face-up cards on the table around the aces. If you find any, place them on top of the ace of the same suit to build your foundation piles, and then proceed to look for "threes" and so on.

4. Play all the cards that you can on the table, and then when you can no longer use the face-up cards proceed to make a waste pile from the stack of cards in the middle of the table. Turn over one card at a time to form your waste pile.

5. Play the card you turn over by placing it in your foundation pile if you can. You can also "park" the card around the ace in one of its empty four corners, as long as it is of the same suit. For example, if you have an empty corner by the ace of spades and you draw a 5 of spades from the deck, you may place it at the corner by the ace of spades until you need it.

6. Win the game by getting all your cards in ascending order in the proper foundation piles.