Klondike is a single-player card game, and by far the most commonly played form of the broader family of card games known as solitaire or patience. A standard deck is dealt into a tableau of seven overlapping piles of increasing size, and the player builds descending sequences of alternating colors within the tableau while trying to move all cards up onto four ordered foundation piles by suit. Its name is generally associated with the Klondike Gold Rush era, though the exact history of the game's development is not precisely documented, and it became one of the most widely played card games after being bundled with early personal computer operating systems.
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Origin Yearthis is the year of the earliest known printed rules under the Klondike name, not a confirmed invention date, the name's own origin is unverified and the Klondike Gold Rush link is unsubstantiated speculation per the same source Classification
Player Count Game TypeSolitaire card game for one player 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Sources
1. Klondike (solitaire), Wikipedia
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Klondike is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the solitaire family.
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The earliest rules for the game known as Klondike today appear in the 1907 edition of Hoyle's Games under the name 'Seven-Card Klondike'.
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Klondike is a single-player card game, and by far the most commonly played form of the broader family of card games known as solitaire or patience. A standard deck is dealt into a tableau of seven overlapping piles of increasing size, and the player builds descending sequences of alternating colors within the tableau while trying to move all cards up onto four ordered foundation piles by
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