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Updated July 14, 2026 01:05

The Official Guide to Full Color® FreeCell

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FULL COLOR® FREECELL

13, 16, 19, 22 & 25 Card Sets

Play the world famous format of Freecell featuring Full Color® Cards now available in 5 different card sets.

We can create an unlimited number of game versions by simply increasing the number of “cards per suit”.

Each increase adds to the degree of difficulty, complexity and endless gaming entertainment.

In this Article you will find the following sections:

Full Color® Cards
FreeCell 13, 16, 19, 22 & 25 Card Sets
Choose a Game & Level to Play
Game Rules • How to Play
Game Specifications
Game Scoring
Game Settings
Card Size Selector
Menubar
Game Statistics & Analytics
Favorites
Custom Backgrounds
Game Center
Game Seed Dialer
Tips & Tricks
Tutorials & Everything Else

Full Color® Cards

An Original Deck consists of 125 Full Color® Cards of 4 Color Suits & 1 White Suit each with 25 cards per suit to create 5 different card sets for you to choose from below in every game of FreeCell.

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Each “Card Set” defines the total number of ranks in each suit and therefore:

Full Color® FreeCell 13 • Levels 1 & 2 uses a 13 Card Set with 13 cards per suit • 65 cards to sort
Full Color® FreeCell 16 • Levels 3 & 4 uses a 16 Card Set with 16 cards per suit • 80 cards to sort
Full Color® FreeCell 19 • Levels 5 & 6 uses a 19 Card Set with 19 cards per suit • 95 cards to sort
Full Color® FreeCell 22 • Levels 7 & 8 uses a 22 Card Set with 22 cards per suit • 110 cards to sort
Full Color® FreeCell 25 • Levels 9 & 10 uses a 25 Card Set with 25 cards per suit • 125 cards to sort

Each Card Set consists of a Level with “Undo” and a second Level with “No Undo”.

It doesn’t take long to realize that each increase in a card set is proportionately more challenging to play and win. Some games can be won in under 2 minutes while others can take well over an hour to solve depending on your degree of experience and mastery of play.

FULL COLOR® FREECELL 13

BEGINNER LEVEL • 13 CARD SET

Level 1 • Undo & Level 2 ¶ No Undo

FULL COLOR® FREECELL 16

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL • 16 CARD SET

Level 3 • Undo & Level 4 ¶ No Undo

FULL COLOR® FREECELL 19

ADVANCED LEVEL • 19 CARD SET

Level 5 • Undo & Level 6 ¶ No Undo

FULL COLOR® FREECELL 22

MASTER LEVEL • 22 CARD SET

Level 7 • Undo & Level 8 ¶ No Undo

FULL COLOR® FREECELL 25

GENIUS LEVEL • 25 CARD SET

Level 9 • Undo & Level 10 ¶ No Undo

PICK A GAME & LEVEL OF PLAY

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CHOOSE A GAME → SELECT A LEVEL → PLAY

Start at the Home screen to begin!

GAME COMPONENTS

FULL COLOR® FREECELL TABLETOP COMPONENTS

Additional FreeCells are added in higher card sets!

GAME RULES

All games of Full Color® FreeCell are played on a “tabletop” that use universal game components regardless of the card set the game is being played in.
Full Color® FreeCell consists of “FreeCells, (1) White Foundation, (4) Color Foundations and a series of Tableaus that the cards are dealt into.
The number of FreeCells and Tableaus are defined by the By Card Set.
White cards are "free cards" and can be removed from the tabletop and placed in the Any White Card™ Foundation as soon as they become
Sort all colored cards DOWN in numerical order in ALTERNATING colors into stacks in theTableaus.
You can NOT put the same colored card on a same colored card in any Tableaus.
Move the cards in the Tableaus to their proper foundations and win the game by stacking IDENTICALLY colored cards UP in sequential order in their Color Foundations.
Use Gestures and Touch / Tap Preferences to Undo, Redo and Automove cards to obtain the highest scores, shortest time and fewest possible moves.
Check your Scoring against others around the world in the Competition section.

GAME SPECIFICATIONS

OUR UNIQUE, PROPRIETARY & COPYRIGHTED RULES

The game specifications itemize all the components and the rules for dealing and playing each game!

GAME SCORE

GAME SCORING & SPECIFICATIONS

Real time tracking of your moves, time and scores and more are in the score bar at the bottom of every game!

The key to rising up the leaderboards, winning achievements, awards, competitions and real money is understanding how the Full Color® Solitaire Game Scoring System works.

GAME SCORING

MOVES, SPEED & BONUSES

A player’s final score is based on these three factors that are common across all card sets and all levels!

The key to getting the highest scores, rising up the leaderboards, winning achievements, awards, competitions and real money is understanding how the Full Color® Solitaire game scoring system works.

NUMBER OF MOVES

One of the keys to obtaining the highest possible scores in a game is the efficiency in which you play the game. This efficiency is revealed in the number of moves that it takes you to complete a game. You can actually solve a game faster than someone else but end up with a lower score because you made too many moves in the end as you are penalized for each and every move you make and worse, the types of moves you make.

If you can move a card from a tableau to a tableau to free up and move another card or stack of cards below it, you will only have points deducted for a single move. If you move a card to a open cell and then back to a tableau you will have points deducted for the move to the an open cell and more points to move the card back to a tableau. If you could have moved it from tableau to tableau instead, not only do you waste an extra move to an open cell, you waste time and these types of inefficient moves reduce your final score quickly.

If you move a card to a color foundation and then need to bring it back down to a tableau, to facilitate or free up another card to progress the game, you will be penalized for that move as well. You should be very careful how you move cards around if you want to obtain the highest possible scores and consider combinations of Tableau to Tableau moves instead of FreeCell moves if possible.

SPEED OF PLAY

A player is penalized -5 points per second from the beginning of the play until they either Win or Surrender the game which locks in their final score. The more time you sit and think about what card or stacks or cards to move, the more points you lose in all games that are in Competition Mode. Naturally, the faster you can play the game, the higher your score is going to be at the end because you didn’t lose any points due to any wasted time. In summary, speed is paramount in obtaining high scores.

BONUS FOR WINNING

If you should succeed in winning a game you will be awarded a sizable bonus based on the Level of play you are on. The higher the card set and complexity to win, the higher the bonus!

GAME SETTINGS

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR GAMES

Discover all of the ways change the settings in your game!

Click here to see a complete list of all Game Settings that you can customize!

CARD SIZE SELECTOR

HOW TO GET BIGGER OR SMALLER CARDS

There are 24 different card sizes to choose from!

Click here to see comprehensive details on how Card Size Selector works inside the game!

ALL MENUBAR BUTTONS

At the top of every game you will find the Menubar. Almost every feature and function of the entire app can be accessed from the menubar in a game. Below is a complete list of all the buttons and their functionality!

Virtually ever feature and function of the entire app can be accessed from one of the buttons from the Menubar in a game. Below is a list of all the buttons and their functionality!