The Rules of Klondike Klondike is the traditional patience game and is played using only one set of cards. We have four stacks and seven slots. Initially, the first slot has one card on it, the second one two, and thus continuing up to the seventh slot, which gets seven cards. Of these cards, only the topmost card is turned face-up. Klondike introduces another type of pile: There is a second deck which holds face-up cards. Every time you request dealing of new cards, these cards are moved onto the open deck pile. You can move cards from this pile to the slots or to the stacks, but you never can move cards back to the open deck. The rules which card may be grouped together are similar to the rules for the Gypsy game. The only difference is that you may only move a king onto an empty slot. Once all cards are dealt, you can flip all the cards of the open deck back onto the other deck and continue. You can flip the deck up to three times.