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Klondike variant

Raw Prawn Solitaire

The original. The one everyone calls just "solitaire".

Raw Prawn is a one-deck Klondike-family game with no stock at all - every card is on the tableau from the start. The lack of a fallback stock makes early moves unusually load-bearing.

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Medium 85% win rate
Raw Prawn solitaire opening layout
Opening deal of Raw Prawn - Klondike family

How to play Raw Prawn

Goal - Move all the cards to the Foundation

Decks

  • A standard deck (52 cards)

Redeals

  • No

Foundation

  • Built up by suit from Ace to King
  • The top card of each pile is available for move

Tableau

  • Built down by suit
  • The top card of each pile is available for move
  • Complete or partial piles can be moved
  • An empty pile can be filled with any card

Stock

  • Press to turn over 1 card from the Stock to the Waste

Waste

  • The top card of each pile is available for move

Strategy & tips

  • With no stock, every face-up card is information. Memorise where each foundation rank is buried before your first move.
  • Empty columns are your only real workspace - engineer one within the first six moves or you're cooked.
  • Play aces and twos to the foundation immediately, but think twice before sending higher cards - you may need them in the tableau.

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