Casino Solitaire

Casino Solitaire brings the classic solitaire layout into the casino card game corner: one standard 52 card deck, seven columns, four empty suit stacks and a single play deck waiting to be turned.

The idea is simple enough to explain in a sentence. Build each suit upwards from the Ace, and prizes are tied to how many cards you manage to get onto those stacks. Aces, of course, have a habit of lurking at the bottom of the seventh column, doing their best impression of an innocent bystander.

It sits in the card and table corner of the lobby, and it leans on both randomness and the choices you make with the cards in front of you.

Bets, Payouts & Rules

The deal is fixed and familiar:

• A standard deck of 52 cards is shuffled at random.
• Cards are dealt into 7 columns from left to right, with an ascending number of cards in each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
• The final card in every column is exposed face up.
• The 4 suit stacks begin empty.
• Everything left over forms a single play deck.

From there, play follows the rules you would expect:

• Any Ace can be moved to a suit stack, with cards of the same suit then built upwards in order.
• Cards move between columns only in consecutive descending order and only in an alternating pattern of red and black.
• Turning the play deck reveals a card that may be playable to a column or straight out to a suit stack.
• A counter on the deck shows how many play deck cards remain, and the play deck can be worked through one time only.

A prize applies for every card you get onto the suit stacks, and clearing the columns and the play deck entirely onto the stacks awards the top prize.

Side Bets

• No Move: no initial move is possible from the deal.
• Red and Black: the starting hand is all red or all black, including the card on the stock pile.

RTP

The RTP is calculated on the assumption that the optimal choice is made for each card, and on that basis it is stated as 96.8% measured over the long term. Outcomes rest on randomness, although they may be influenced by the choices a player makes.

If this sort of card format appeals, there is plenty more in the wider range of casino table games.

Features & Bonus Rounds

Hint

The Hint option flags an available next move when one exists, which is handy for the moments a red seven has been sitting there quietly for a full minute waiting to be noticed.

Undo

The Undo option covers the last move of turning over a play deck card, or moving a card from a column out to a suit stack. It does not apply to turning over one of the column cards, and it can be used once.

Playing the cards

Because the shuffle is random, some deals open up more freely than others. Judgement comes into it when you decide which column to unpick and when to send a card out to the stacks, but no sequence of choices can determine how the deck falls.

Taste & Feel

This one has the calm rhythm of a card table rather than the clatter of a busy studio floor. Seven columns, four stacks, a countdown on the play deck, and the small satisfaction of watching a suit line up from Ace upwards.

It is unhurried by design. The cards will still be there when you fancy a look, sitting in their columns like they have all the time in the world.

If you enjoy the card-led side of the lobby, Solitaire and Jacks or Better™ are worth a browse too.