The Rules of Free Cell ====================== This variant has been shamelessly borrowed from the Microsoft Windows entertainment package. The rules introduce a new pile type, which we call register or tmp. A register may hold only one card at a time, but this may be an arbitrary one. This is to compensate the fact that all cards are dealt at the start of game, which makes it very difficult to achieve a free slot. The cards dealt initially do not often form valid groups. You have to rearrange them, possibly using the registers as scratch storage. To get a free slot you have to build groups of cards which alternate in colour and have decreasing ranks. The rules are easy to understand if you know Gypsy already since the rules for moving cards are the same. Free Cell is played with one deck of cards. You have four registers, four stacks, and eight slots.