How to Play Aloha Solitaire

Aloha Solitaire requires less setup than most other Solitaire games.

Solitaire is a single-player card game in which a player acts as a dealer and lays out cards according to a particular pattern, depending on the playing style. Aloha Solitaire is a relatively new playing style popularized online through flash game websites. It is simple to pick up and easy to win.

Things You'll Need

• Deck of cards

Instructions

1. Shuffle your cards before playing. Make sure no cards are missing, and remove instruction cards and jokers.

2. Lay down 15 cards face down in a pyramid formation; the top row should have one card, the second row should have two cards, the last row should have five cards, etc. Turn the bottom five cards over so that you can see them.

3. Lay the remaining 37 cards in a "draw pile." This is where your cards will come from. Reveal three cards at once from this pile, and match each card with one of the same number. You can match from your withdraw pile, or with cards revealed in the pyramid.

4. If you draw from the pile of cards and cannot match them all, stack the next three, one each on top of another, on top of your other drawn cards. For example, if you lay out three and can match the two furthest right cards, then of the next three cards you draw, the first gets stacked on top of the remaining card from the previous draw, and the other two are placed on the table normally.

5. Turn over another card from the pyramid when the two adjacent cards beneath it have been matched. Set cards aside when they have been matched.

Tips & Warnings

• Only re-draw from your draw pile twice if you want to play by standard rules. After that, you cannot draw anything else from the pile and must leave them stacked on each other.

References

• Gamesville: How to Play Aloha Solitaire