Winning at Forty Thieves Solitaire

Learn the strategy to play and winning forty thieves solitaire.

Play: Turn over one card at a time from the deck and play on an ace, if possible. Deck cards can also be built down in suits on the bottom card in each row, or put in the wastepile.
You can play the top card in the wastecard, the bottom card in the tableau and the deck card.
Remember, you're building up on the aces in sequence and in suit, and you are building down on the bottom cards in sequence and in suit. If you remove an entire pile from the row, the space can be filled from the deck or from the wastepile or from a bottom card.

Tips:

Play to empty a piles as soon as possible, Pick pile with best chance of clearing. Refrain from making builds that would block places earmarked for cards in this pile.

Use empty piles to reveal cards, reserve empty piles for important cards.

Move builds using empty piles

Near end of game, use empty piles to reduce the discard pile