Big Ben
A two-deck expansion of the clock-face foundation layout with a fuller tableau.
- 2 decks
- 15 min
- Intermediate
Category
Solitaire games played with two full decks shuffled together for a bigger, longer game.
20 games in this category.
A two-deck expansion of the clock-face foundation layout with a fuller tableau.
A four-by-four grid of piles, each committed to one direction, feeding foundations that climb to King and come back down.
Twenty waste piles feeding eight foundations that climb from the Aces and descend from the Kings.
A woven 8x8 quilt where only cards with a short edge free can be played, to Aces building up and Kings building down.
Eight short rows of four, built down with suit ignored, and any card may take a space that opens up.
Klondike scaled up to two decks and nine tableau columns for a longer, more complex game.
Build strict same-suit sequences across ten columns dealt from two decks — one of the toughest classic patience games.
Only the cornerstone piles may feed any foundation — every other pile is tied to the one in its own row.
A nine-column two-deck Klondike with three redeals, but only one card at a time unless a King leads the group.
Thirty-six tiny piles of three feeding eight foundations that climb from Aces and descend from Kings.
Eight columns fed eight cards at a time, with one late privilege: you may set a card aside and bring it back.
Eight foundations built up by suit in twos, so each one skips every other rank on its way round.
Queens are discarded and the eight Kings become column bases, with Aces building up to Jacks in the middle.
Build same-suit sequences from King to Ace across ten tableau columns using two full decks and four suits.
The easiest Spider variant, played with a single suit repeated across both decks.
A more forgiving Spider variant played with only two suits instead of all four.
Two stripped decks of high cards only, with foundations climbing from Nine to Ace and back down again.
Also called Emperor of Germany — an ornate two-deck game built around eight Queen and King foundations.
You pick which rank the foundations start on, then build them up in alternating colours from an eleven-card terrace.
TriPeaks scaled up to two decks and a wider set of peaks for a longer round.
A two-deck expansion of the clock-face foundation layout with a fuller tableau.
A four-by-four grid of piles, each committed to one direction, feeding foundations that climb to King and come back down.
Twenty waste piles feeding eight foundations that climb from the Aces and descend from the Kings.
A woven 8x8 quilt where only cards with a short edge free can be played, to Aces building up and Kings building down.
Eight short rows of four, built down with suit ignored, and any card may take a space that opens up.
Klondike scaled up to two decks and nine tableau columns for a longer, more complex game.
Build strict same-suit sequences across ten columns dealt from two decks — one of the toughest classic patience games.
Only the cornerstone piles may feed any foundation — every other pile is tied to the one in its own row.