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Striptease Solitaire is a double-deck Napoleon family game with one of the most permissive tableau rules in the family: you can place any card on any other card, regardless of suit, as long as it is one rank lower. This "any suit" building dramatically increases the number of legal moves and makes Striptease one of the more winnable two-deck patience games available.
What is Striptease Solitaire?
Striptease uses two standard 52-card decks (104 cards). Ten tableau columns are each dealt four cards face-up, placing 40 cards on the tableau and leaving 64 in the stock. Eight foundations (one per suit-deck combination) must be built from Ace up to King in suit. Tableau columns build down by rank in any suit; only one card at a time may be moved. One card is drawn at a time from the stock; no redeals.
What "any suit" building means
In most Napoleon family games, tableau placement requires either the same suit or alternating colours. Striptease removes this constraint entirely: any card of the next lower rank can be placed on a tableau top, regardless of its suit or colour. This means every face-up tableau top typically has several placement candidates. The challenge shifts from finding legal moves to choosing the best sequence of moves to build toward foundations efficiently.
How to play Striptease Solitaire
Rules and objective
Move all 104 cards to the eight foundation piles, each built from Ace to King in a single suit. A card may be placed on any tableau column top if it is exactly one rank lower than the current top card (suit does not matter). Only one card at a time may be moved. Empty columns accept any single card. Draw one card at a time from the stock; no redeals.
Game setup
- Shuffle two standard 52-card decks together (104 cards total).
- Deal four rows of ten, all face-up, into ten columns.
- Reserve space above for eight foundation slots.
- Place the remaining 64 cards face-down as the stock.
Strategies to win Striptease Solitaire
- Plan toward foundations, not just tableau tidiness. With any-suit building, it is easy to create long mixed-suit runs that look organised but block foundation progress. Always ask: does this move bring a card closer to a foundation pile?
- Send Aces and 2s to foundations immediately. Because tableau placement is so flexible, you rarely need to hold low cards for tableau purposes. Play them to foundations as soon as they appear.
- Avoid blocking same-suit runs. Even though cross-suit placement is legal, you want to build same-suit runs where possible because those are the only sequences you can send to foundations. If you bury a card of the right suit under a different suit, you create extra work.
- Use empty columns sparingly. With so many legal placements, empty columns appear less valuable than in stricter variants. But they are still the only way to park a card temporarily while rearranging, so avoid filling them with isolated off-suit cards.
Striptease vs other Napoleon family build rules
| Game | Build rule | Placements per top card | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forty Thieves | Same suit | Up to 2 | ~15% |
| Streets | Alt colour | Up to 4 | ~20% |
| Indian | Any except own suit | Up to 6 | ~30% |
| Striptease | Any suit | Up to 8 | ~45% |
Striptease Solitaire FAQ
Is any-suit building really that powerful?
It significantly increases the win rate, but Striptease is not trivial. With 104 cards, eight foundation piles, and only one card move at a time, the game still demands careful sequencing. The main risk is creating deeply mixed-suit columns that are very hard to sort once they accumulate.
Can I move sequences in Striptease?
No. Like all standard Napoleon family games, only one card at a time may be moved. Mixed-suit sequences accumulate on the tableau but must be moved card by card.
How does Striptease compare to Streets Solitaire?
Streets Solitaire uses the same Forty Thieves layout (ten columns of four) but builds in alternating colours rather than same suit. Striptease goes further by allowing any suit, roughly doubling the legal placements compared to Streets and raising the win rate from around 20% to around 45%.