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Step 1
Make the beginning of the board by dealing 13 cards face down in a pile, which is the "reserve" pile.
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Step 2
Place a single card face up in its own row. This is the first foundation card, and the other three foundation cards are the same rank card in the other three suits.
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Step 3
Deal four cards face up, next to each other in a row beneath the foundation card. These cards are the "tableau," and the top card of each column in the tableau is available for play.
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Step 4
Keep the remaining cards face down in a separate "stockpile."
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Step 5
Build the foundations up by suit, wrapping around from King to Ace until you have placed every card of the suit. When no card fits on the foundations, build the tableau columns down by alternating colors, wrapping around from Ace to King. Cards in a sequence can move together to other columns. Empty tableau columns only accept the top card from the reserve pile, but if the reserve is empty, you can fill the empty column from the stockpile.
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Step 6
Fill gaps in the tableau or the foundations with cards from the reserve.
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Step 7
Flip over three cards from the stockpile into the "waste" pile when no other moves are possible. Use the top card in the waste pile to fill gaps in the tableau or the foundations. When you get to the end of the stockpile, turn the waste pile over, and start over. If you get every card into the foundation piles, you have won the game.
Comments
rkwaters said
on 6/10/2008 Because Canfield is so difficult to win, there is a version of Canfield at goodsol.com where instead of dealing the cards in groups of threes the cards can be dealt one at a time. There is a traditional Canfield game at solitaireinnovations.com that can be won most of the time since the player never sees some of the unwinnable games.