For a non-King, it can only be moved onto the lowermost card in a pile that is its next-in-rank and of the same suit. When moving a King from a free cell to the tableau, it can only be placed into a vacant column. (Note: In Easy Eight Off Solitaire, any rank may be used to fill a column.) A non-King card may not be moved into an empty column. The King may come from either the free cell area or the bottom-most card in a pile. Any one card may be moved to an empty free cell.Īn important rule of Eight Off Solitaire is that when a column becomes vacant, it may only be filled with a King of any suit. A pile of 6 cards are dealt into each of the 8 columns in the tableau are and the remaining 4 cards are dealt into the leftmost 4 cells in the free cell area.Ī card may be moved by the player back and forth between the tableau and the free cell area. When the game starts, all 52 cards of a standard deck of playing cards are dealt face-up. The goal of Eight Off is to build up all 4 of the suits in the foundation, each in order from the Ace to the King. From low to high, card ranks run in order from the Ace, to the Two, to the Three, and so on up to the Ten, the Jack, the Queen, and finally the King. Both ranks and suits of cards are important.
Eight Off is a FreeCell family solitaire game.Įight Off is played with one 52-card standard deck of playing cards.
