After getting roughed up by the really difficult Solitaire variations, players sometimes need an easy win. Carpet is part of that great Solitaire tradition of games that are intentionally easy (you can expect to win every 1 in 2 games).
HOW TO DEAL Start with a fifty-two-card deck, and remove the four aces. Place these face-up on the board; these are your four foundations. Next, deal twenty cards in four rows of five cards each. This is your tableau (called carpet cards). Set aside the remaining cards as your reserve.
WINNING The goal is to build each of your foundation aces by suit in ascending rank.
HOW TO PLAY You may play any card from the tableau (carpet cards) onto the foundations. You may not build or move carpet cards onto each other. And whenever a carpet card is played, deal a replacement card from the reserve (or from the waste pile, if the reserve is exhausted).
Deal one card from the reserve once you’ve exhausted all moves. If you can’t play it, place it face up in a waste pile. The top card of your waste pile may always be played on a foundation pile. There is no redeal in Carpet, otherwise this easy-to-win game would become an impossible-to-lose game!