Tallow Solitaire
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About this game
A solitaire table lit by one candle. Draft three face-up cards, keep one and burn the other two into wax and ash. Bring eight cards home to clear a challenge.
How it works
Twelve numbered deals progress through four tiers: Easy exposes every tableau card; Medium hides cards and needs Kings in empty columns; Hard moves one card at a time; Inferno adds balanced foundations and waits for empty stock before relighting. In challenges, eight drops of wax return most ashes to the stock, while the highest-ranked quarter fuels the flame; Help shows exactly which cards will burn.
Retry a deal, earn its completion mark or choose a fresh challenge. Classic keeps the original rules and your saved best score.
Controls
- Choose a numbered column
- Pick a visible card or run from its card chooser
- Choose a column or foundation
- Place the selected card or run
- Draft
- Turn three stock cards face up
- Burn all / Burn card
- Refuse the draft, or drop the held card
- Relight
- Spend eight drops of wax to bring most of the ash back
- Tab and Enter
- Move between cards and controls
Devices
- Desktop and laptop, with a keyboard
- Touchscreen phones and tablets
The listed devices describe intended input support, not a browser compatibility guarantee. Phone testing on real hardware has not been done yet.
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