Corona Solitaire is a fun solitaire game that requires skill, planning, and patience. There are decisions to be made throughout the game, but you may not know if the game can be finished until the last card. It’s a fairly obscure solitaire game, but those who play it find it immensely fun…in fact, it’s one of my personal favorites, and I just can’t stop playing it!

The goal is to build 8 sequences of ascending suits on the foundation piles.

The opening tableau is made up of 2 decks and consists of:

  • 8 foundation piles, all empty,
  • 12 maneuver piles, each with 3 cards face up, and
  • a claw, with 68 cards face down.

Cards can be moved in the maneuver zone if they are of the same suit and 1 less in

range. So a 7 of Diamonds can be played against an 8 of Diamonds, and a Queen of

Spades can be played on a King of Spades. Kings cannot be moved on the

zone in all maneuvers.

When a maneuver stack becomes empty, a card is automatically drawn from the top.

from the waste pile. If the scrap pile is empty, a card is automatically drawn from the

heel.

Clicking on the claw will move a single card to the scrap pile. You can only ride a bike

through the heel once.

Only a single card can be moved at any time, and stacks cannot be moved as a

whole.

While the rules seem simple, the game itself is quite complex and often requires

considerable planning. In particular, deciding when exactly to clean a stack can have

a huge impact on the game, because it changes the cards you currently have in

play. It is often worth delaying the removal of a stack, so that a more valuable card is obtained.

bring into play

At the beginning of the game, it is useful to look for investments. This is where there is a card.

obscured by the same suit but of higher rank. For example, a 2 of Diamonds

underneath is a 7 of Diamonds. Investments can make the card below difficult to

expose, and not paying attention to them can make the games unsolvable. It’s

it’s often worth trying to move investments where possible, so in the example above,

It would be beneficial to move the 7 of Diamonds to an 8 of Diamonds, to get

access to the 2, instead of putting a 6 of Diamonds on the 7.

If you play solitaire or like a challenge, then give Corona Solitaire a try… I’m sure

You’re going to love it!