King Tut is the pyramid game with no limit on how often you may go back through the stock — and one rule that makes that generosity harder to use than it sounds. Twenty-eight cards are dealt face-up as a seven-row triangle, each card covering two below it, and the remaining twenty-four form a stock that turns three cards at a time to the waste. Only the waste's top card can be played; the stock itself is face down. Two available cards leave together when their values add up to thirteen, and a king is thirteen on its own. You win when the triangle is clear, whatever is left over. Also known as Tut's Tomb. Free in your browser, no sign-up, and it works offline once the page has loaded.
Goal: Play King Tut Solitaire free online. Clear a 28-card pyramid by pairing to thirteen, with a stock dealt three at a time that you may recycle for ever.
King Tut, also catalogued as Tut's Tomb, looks at first like the most forgiving game in the pyramid family: the stock may be recycled without limit, and the win asks only that the triangle be cleared. Both are true, and the game is still hard, because of the deal of three. Turning three cards at a time means only every third card ever reaches the top of the waste, and since a redeal restores the stock in exactly the order it started in, going round again shows the same cards unless something has been removed in between. That single fact — that the cycle repeats until you break it — is what the game is really about, and it is also what lets a computer tell you honestly when a deal is finished rather than letting you shuffle for ever. Measured on this implementation, an automatic player following the hints cleared about half the triangle and won none of 120 deals; dealing one card at a time instead of three raised that to 40. The difficulty is the deal, not the board.
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Three. Only the top of those three can be played, so two of every three cards land buried until the card above them is removed.
No. King Tut uses a plain face-down stock, unlike Pyramid and Relaxed Pyramid where the stock's top card is face up and playable.
As often as you like. But the cycle repeats exactly, so going round again shows the same cards unless you removed something in between.
Because the cycle repeats after one pass. If no point in that pass offers a pair, no amount of further dealing ever will, and the game says so rather than letting you shuffle for ever.
Only the 28-card triangle. Cards left in the stock and waste do not count against you — that rule is inherited from Relaxed Pyramid.
Remove any card from the waste. That shifts the grouping by one, so the next pass exposes a different third of the stock.