Giza is the pyramid game with nothing hidden. There is no stock and no waste — the entire pack is dealt out at the start, twenty-four cards as eight reserve piles of three and the other twenty-eight as a seven-row triangle. Two available cards leave together when their values add up to thirteen, and a king is thirteen on its own. A triangle card is available while both cards covering it have gone; a reserve card is available when it is the last one of its pile. Because every card is face up from the first move, Giza is a game of planning rather than luck, and it is the one member of the pyramid family where the computer can tell you with certainty when a deal is finished. Free in your browser, no sign-up, and it works offline once the page has loaded.
Goal: Play Giza Solitaire free online. An open pyramid game: the whole pack is dealt to a 28-card triangle and eight reserve piles, with no stock to draw from.
Giza belongs to the small group of pyramid games that dispense with the stock entirely, and it is much the better for it. The classic game hides twenty-four cards behind a stock you may only see in a fixed order, which makes it largely a matter of luck; Giza deals all twenty-four face up as eight small piles instead, and the game becomes a planning puzzle. The open-source PySolFC collection, whose rules this version follows, tags it as an open game and rates it balanced — the only rating of that kind in the pyramid family apart from its own variant Pyramid Dozen. The design has a pleasing arithmetic to it: eight piles of three is twenty-four, and twenty-four plus a twenty-eight card triangle is fifty-two exactly, with nothing left over. That completeness is also what lets this implementation be certain about a lost game — with no hidden card and no way for a card to enter play except by a removal, a board with no legal pair is genuinely finished, and the game says so rather than leaving you to hunt.
This Giza runs in your browser — free, no download, no sign-up. Install it as an app on your phone or computer; once installed it works offline. Unlimited undo, statistics, and a daily challenge that gives every player the same deal that day.
No. The whole pack is dealt at the start — 28 cards to the triangle and 24 to eight reserve piles of three. There is nothing to draw.
Ace with queen, two with jack, three with ten, four with nine, five with eight, and six with seven. A king is thirteen alone.
Only the last card of each pile. The cards beneath are shown — this is an open game — but they become available only as the ones above them go.
Yes, freely. A reserve king also leaves alone, exactly as a triangle king does.
Because nothing is hidden. With no stock, no card can enter play except by a removal, so a board with no legal pair is certainly finished.
No, but it rewards planning far more than the classic game. Taking the first pair the hints show is often a mistake; read the whole board first.