


Of course there are going to be situations where you may want to put a stack temporarily on a non-matching card (junk piles, for instance) but that should be the exception not the rule. Whenever you have a choice between a move that places a card or stack atop one of the same suit and a move that places that same card or stack atop a card of a different suit, you should generally choose the same suit because it makes that stack bigger and gets you closer to cleaning it off the board. I know it seems obvious, but once you graduate from 1-suit don’t forget that it’s really very important to stack cards of the same suit before cards of a different suit. It bears reminding here that one cannot deal a stock pile with an empty column on the tableau, so don’t forget to put at least one card into any empties you have before you click the stock pile or it won’t work. Counter intuitive as it may seem, of the three sixes available to put on the seven in the example below it’s actually more important to get the 6 on that Ace out of the way than it is to clear off the nearly complete stack next to the seven. This means you should generally focus on the columns with the fewest face-down cards underneath them when making choices – if you have a three fours on the board that you can put on your one available 5 on, choose the 4 that is closest to the bottom of its column.
