# Card Notes: Solitaire Strategy and Card Game Guides

Worked examples and practical guides for Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Pyramid, TriPeaks, Golf, Yukon, Blackjack and more, written for the tables on Card Lounge.

- [Middle cards in Higher or Lower: how to call a 6, 7 or 8](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/higher-or-lower-middle-cards.md)
- [Aces and Kings in Higher or Lower: the guesses you cannot lose](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/higher-or-lower-aces-and-kings.md)
- [Six decks in one shoe: what 312 cards mean at the blackjack table](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/blackjack-six-deck-shoe.md)
- [Doubling at the blackjack table: one card, twice the play chips](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/blackjack-double-down.md)
- [Reading your Card Lounge statistics: what played, won and best really count](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/reading-your-statistics.md)
- [Memory Pairs: why a red seven never matches a black seven](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/memory-pairs-colour-rule.md)
- [Why Aces and twos need a plan in Golf solitaire](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/golf-aces-and-twos.md)
- [Golf solitaire on a budget: making 16 stock cards last](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/golf-stock-budget.md)
- [The last few stock cards in TriPeaks: how to play the endgame](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/tripeaks-last-stock-cards.md)
- [Opening the TriPeaks peaks: which cards to clear first](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/tripeaks-opening-the-peaks.md)
- [Why some Pyramid pairs that make 13 can never be removed](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/pyramid-blocked-pairs.md)
- [Three passes through the Pyramid stock: how to plan each one](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/pyramid-stock-passes.md)
- [Before the first move: a five-point scan of a FreeCell deal](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/freecell-reading-the-deal.md)
- [FreeCell long runs: how each empty column doubles your move](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/freecell-moving-long-runs.md)
- [Spider stock timing: when to deal the next ten cards](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/spider-when-to-deal.md)
- [Spider suits: why a legal build is not always a movable run](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/spider-suit-runs.md)
- [Yukon or Klondike: what changes when there is no stock?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/yukon-vs-klondike.md)
- [Yukon empty columns: which King should get the space?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/yukon-kings-and-empty-columns.md)
- [Unlimited recycles in Klondike: making every pass through the stock count](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/klondike-stock-recycling.md)
- [Klondike foundations: when to play a card up and when to wait](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/klondike-foundation-timing.md)
- [Hint, Auto move and Undo: learning without spoiling the deal](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/hints-and-undo.md)
- [Memory Pairs: a simple method for fewer turns](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/memory-pairs-method.md)
- [Higher or Lower: counting what is left in the deck](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/higher-or-lower-odds.md)
- [Soft 17 explained: hard and soft totals at the blackjack table](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/blackjack-soft-seventeen.md)
- [Yukon: moving whole piles to reach face-down cards](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/yukon-moving-buried-cards.md)
- [Golf solitaire: why a King on the waste ends your run](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/golf-no-kings.md)
- [TriPeaks chains: which card to play when two of them fit](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/tripeaks-chains.md)
- [Which Pyramid pairs make 13, and which should you take first?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/pyramid-thirteen-pairs.md)
- [One, two or four suits: which Spider should you play?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/spider-one-two-four-suits.md)
- [Why is an empty column so valuable in Spider?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/spider-empty-columns.md)
- [What does a FreeCell deal number mean?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/freecell-deal-numbers.md)
- [How many cards can you move at once in FreeCell?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/freecell-cell-economy.md)
- [Draw 1 or Draw 3: what really changes in Klondike?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/draw-one-or-draw-three.md)
- [Which Klondike move should you make first?](https://gamecardlounges.com/blog/klondike-first-moves.md)