HOW TO DEAL Start with two fifty-two-card decks (104 cards total), and deal four aces and four kings (one per suit) to your foundations. Next, shuffle and deal ten cards face up, in a row. This is the first row in your tableau.Some Solitaire games appear easy to win, and are easy to win. Other games appear easy yet have some twist that makes them difficult to win. Parallels belongs to the latter group. The odds of winning here are 1 in every 25 hands.
HOW TO DEAL Start with two fifty-two-card decks (104 cards total), and deal four aces and four kings (one per suit) to your foundations. Next, shuffle and deal ten cards face up, in a row. This is the first row in your tableau.
WINNING Build eight total foundations: four by suit in ascending rank from ace to king, four by suit in descending rank from king to ace.
HOW TO PLAY Build cards from your tableau to the foundations, and fill any gaps in the tableau with cards from the stock.
If all gaps are filled and you still cannot move, deal ten new face-up cards in a row directly below the original row of ten tableau cards. Continue building your foundations, filling any gaps in the tableau from the stock. Deal another row of ten cards to the tableau each time you run out of moves.
As your tableau grows, note that you may play any tableau card to the foundations as long as there is at least one empty space either above or below the card. Because of this rule, don’t be in a rush to full gaps in the tableau. The gaps definitely come in handy!
There is no redeal in Parallels; the game is over when the stock is exhausted.