The Rules of Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil uses a standard 52-card deck (no jokers).  To begin the game the 
deck is shuffled, then dealt face-up, one card at a time, into seventeen 
piles of three cards each.  The last card is placed by itself as an 
eighteenth pile.  These piles are also known as "fans".

The object of the game is to move all of the cards from the eighteen fans 
into four new piles, arranged by suit, in order from Ace (low) to King 
(high).  These four destination piles are known as the "foundations".  Only 
the top card of each fan is available for play.

In addition to moving cards from fans to foundations, cards can also be moved 
from one fan to another, building down in suit.  In this way, submerged cards 
can be freed up for play to the foundations or to other fans.  Once a fan 
becomes empty, no moves can be made to that fan.

When you have made all the moves you can, from the fans to the foundations 
and from fan to fan, the remaining cards in all the fans may be reshuffled 
and re-dealt in the same manner as at the beginning of the game (three cards 
to a fan).  In all, the deck may be shuffled three times (once to begin the 
game, and twice more during the game).

At some point during the game, you may draw one submerged card from a fan and 
play it on any valid foundation or fan.  It is generally better to save this 
draw for as long as possible.

You can point to one of the foundations and click the mouse button to 
initiate "manual-auto" mode.  This function is, as the name inplies, a cross 
between manual mode and automatic mode.  When you click on a foundation, the 
fans are scanned for possible moves, and any valid moves to that foundation 
will be made automatically.