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FreeCell is a solitaire game that was made popular by Microsoft in the 1990s. One of its oldest ancestors is Eight Off. In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American Martin Gardner described in his 'Mathematical Games' column, a game by C. L. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit instead of by alternate colors. This variant is now called Baker's Game.

Paul Alfille changed Baker's Game by making cards build according to alternate colors, thus creating FreeCell. He implemented the first computerized version of it for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978. The game became popular mainly due to Jim Horne, who learned the game from the PLATO system and implemented the game as a full graphical version for Windows. This was eventually bundled along with several releases of Windows.

FreeCell is the second solitaire game I create, before that I created Klondike (or 'classic' solitaire) and I've also made a few card games like Hearts, Spades and Whist. If you have any questions, comments or requests for other solitaire games you can send them to admin@cardgames.io or tweet at me @cardgamesio. Play FreeCell Solitaire online from USA Today. FreeCell Solitaire is a fun and engaging online game. Play it and other games online at games.usatoday.com. 247 Games offers a fantastic version of FreeCell with many modes to choose from. Click on any of the games below to play directly in your browser. All of our FreeCell games are 100% free, all day, every day! 6 open cells and two decks of cards will make double freecell your game of choice! Complete the freecell foundations twice. Place cards Ace to King then repeat Ace to King again. Freecell game takes much more time and concentration than classic freecell but is a fun variation for freecell lovers.

• Shuffle, then deal the 52 cards face up in 8 columns with each card visible but only the end card of each column fully exposed. Four columns will have 7 cards, the others only 6.
• Apart from the columns, there are four single card free cells and four suit piles (foundations). The objective is to get all the cards into the foundations.
• Single exposed cards may be moved:
  • Column to column, placing the card on a card of the next rank and different colour suit. (E.G. Place a red 3 on a black 4.) (Aces are low.). Empty columns may be filled with any suit or rank.
  • Column to FreeCell, any exposed card as long as there is an empty cell.
  • FreeCell to Column, as column to column.
  • Column to suit home pile. Next card in order, starting with the Ace, ending with the King. Each suit is completely independent.
  • FreeCell to suit home pile. As column to suit home pile.

To improve the game play, multiple cards may be dragged at once as long as there are enough empty FreeCells such that the move could be made by moving the cards individually.

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