Addiction Solitaire
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Addiction Solitaire Strategy & Tips

Addiction Solitaire rewards planning over speed. These habits help you keep gaps alive, avoid dead ends, and spend your three redeals well.

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Habits that win

Seven habits for better games

  • Before you move, look at the gaps and ask which card each one needs. A move that opens a gap you can fill next is worth more than one that opens a dead gap.
  • Avoid gaps that sit right after a King or next to another gap. They cannot be filled, so every dead gap is a space you cannot use until the next redeal.
  • A 2 in the first column is the anchor of a row. Choose which 2 goes where deliberately — the suit you start decides which cards that row will ask for.
  • Push the row that is furthest along. A longer solved run is locked in through redeals, and the gap after it becomes your working space.
  • Do not redeal the moment you run out of moves if you have an undo available. Step back and see whether a different order opens another line first.
  • Save redeals for when the board is genuinely stuck. Each one shuffles away unsolved progress, so use it when the loose cards have little left to give.
  • Use hints to learn, not to lean on. They prefer moves that lock a card in place, which is a good habit to copy.

Common mistakes

What loses games

  1. Filling gaps left to right without a plan

    Taking the first legal move you see often buries a gap behind a King or next to another gap. Scan every move, then pick the one that leaves the most gaps alive.

  2. Starting the wrong suit in a row

    The first 2 in a row commits it to that suit. If the rest of that suit is scattered and blocked, the row stalls. Check where the 3 and 4 are before you commit.

  3. Spending redeals too early

    A redeal shuffles everything that is not solved. Burning one with moves still available throws away structure you built. Only redeal once the board has no useful move left.

  4. Ignoring undo

    Undo is unlimited between redeals. Treat a doubtful move as an experiment: play it, see which gaps it opens, and take it back if the board got worse.

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