Klondike is the traditional patience game and is played using only one set of
cards. We have four stacks and seven slots. Initially, the first slot has one
card on it, the second one two, and thus continuing up to the seventh slot,
which gets seven cards. Of these cards, only the topmost card is turned
face-up2.
Klondike introduces another type of pile: There is a second deck
which holds face-up cards. Every time you request the dealing of new cards,
these cards are moved onto the open deck pile.
You can move cards from this pile to the
slots or to the stacks, but you never can move cards back to the open deck.
The rules which card may be grouped together are similar to the rules for the
Gypsy game. The only difference is that you may only move a King onto an
empty slot.
With the default rules, you may not move cards from the stacks back to the
slots, but if you start xpat2 with the -relaxed 1 option, this is a
valid move.
Once all cards are dealt, you can flip all the cards of the open deck back
onto the other deck and continue. You can flip the deck up to three times.
(This limit can be increased using the -flips option)