Game info: Two-Deck game type; 2 deck (104 cards); 1 redeal
The aim of Clock Patience Solitaire is expose all cards before 4 Kings. Solitaire card game against the clock. You have to find all the cards for each position of the clock without turning over all four kings. Reveal all four kings before finding all the others and the game is over.
Alternate names: Big Ben.
- Game time: Medium
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Skill level: Mostly chance
- Chance of winning: Very high (about 2 in 3)
Object of the game: To move all the cards to the foundations (the 'Clock').
Clock Solitaire Rules
Clock Solitaire Free
Solitaire Rules
Foundations (12 piles: the 'Clock'. Complete these piles to win the game)
Build up in suit from the base card until the top card of each foundation shows the number corresponding to its position on a clock face (the 'hour' in a clock in that position). For example, the 5 at the top would build up to the Ace (1 o'clock).
Jack equals 11 o'clock and Queen equals 12 o'clock.
Ranking of cards is continuous: build Aces after Kings when necessary.
Tableau (12 fans of 3 cards each)
Play Clock Solitaire
Build down in suit (for example, a 10 can be played on a Jack).
The top card of each fan is available for play to another tableau pile or to the foundations.
Only one card at a time can be moved.
Spaces may be filled with any available card.
Stock
After all possible plays have been made, click on the stock: the fans with less than 3 cards are brought up to 3 cards each, commencing with the fan representing the hour One, and going around the remaining fans from left to right. All fans must be filled before playing.
If all the fans are full, and a card is dealt which is not available for play to the foundations or to the tableau, it remains in the waste.
One redeal is permitted (two deals in all).
Waste (One pile)
- The top card is available for play to the foundations or to the tableau.
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