Crescent Solitaire FAQ

Crescent Solitaire is a single-player patience game played with two 52-card decks. Eight foundations — four building up from Ace to King and four building down from King to Ace — sit in the middle, surrounded by sixteen face-up tableau piles of six cards. You move one top card at a time and win by getting all 104 cards onto the foundations.

Yes. crescentsolitaire.app is completely free — no download, no sign-up, no paywall. Open the page, press Play, and the cards are dealt in your browser.

No. It follows the same well-known rules as the versions found on AARP’s games page and other sites, but it is an independent game and is not affiliated with or endorsed by AARP. You do not need an AARP membership, an account, or any login to play here.

No. The game runs entirely in your browser on desktop and mobile. There are no accounts; your stats and sound setting are saved in your browser’s local storage.

Yes — “crescent solitare” is a common misspelling of Crescent Solitaire, and this is the same two-deck game people are looking for under either spelling.

Move a top card onto a foundation when it is the next rank in that foundation’s direction, or onto another tableau pile when it is the same suit and exactly one rank higher or lower than that pile’s top card. Ace and King count as neighbours. If you run out of moves, use one of your three reshuffles, which redeals every card still on the tableau.

At the start, one Ace and one King of each suit are already on the foundations — the Aces start the ascending piles and the Kings start the descending piles. On the tableau, Ace and King of the same suit count as neighbours, so an Ace can be placed on a King (or a 2) and a King on an Ace (or a Queen). The other Aces and Kings finish the descending and ascending piles, so they are worth planning for.

Yes, top cards can move between the ascending and descending foundations of the same suit when the rank fits, which is one of the main ways to free a blocked card. A foundation can never be left empty: its starting Ace or King stays.

Reshuffle gathers every card still on the tableau, shuffles them, and redeals them across the sixteen piles. Cards already on the foundations are not touched. You get three reshuffles per game, and undo can take one back.

No. Only the top card of a pile moves. That is the rule that makes planning matter: every card you place on a pile buries the one beneath it.

No. Some other versions cap a game at twenty minutes; here the clock only counts up so it can record your best time.

No. Deals are random, and some lock up no matter how you play. With careful play and three reshuffles most deals can be won, and unlimited undo lets you try a line and roll it back.

Send low and high cards home early, choose moves that uncover a playable card, avoid burying cards you still need, use foundation-to-foundation moves to free blocked piles, and save reshuffles for a real lock. The tips page goes through each of these with examples.

Five per game. A hint highlights a card and where it can go, favouring moves that send a card home or uncover a card you can play next.

Yes. The board scales to your screen width with every pile visible, and you can tap a card to pick it up and tap its destination, or drag it with your finger. The controls sit directly under the board.

Yes, on your device. Games won, win rate, best time, fewest moves, most cards home, win streak, and your mute setting persist in your browser’s local storage and survive a refresh. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser data resets it.

N starts a new game, U undoes, H shows a hint, R reshuffles, M mutes or unmutes sound, and Escape puts a picked-up card back. You can also Tab to any top card and press Enter or Space to pick it up or drop it.

Once the page has loaded the game itself needs no connection. Sound is optional — mute it with the Sound button or M, and your choice is remembered.