This guide is for the original version of the game! If you're looking for a guide on the mobile-friendly Sakhmet Solitaire II, find it here:
Flash Guide
Sakhmet Solitaire is the Neopian version of one of the oldest and most well-loved solitaire games known as Klondike or Patience.
How To Play
Your goal is to create a stack of cards from low (Ace) to high (King) in each of the four Ace piles in the upper left corner. Each pile can only contain one suit.
Below these Ace piles is the game board, with cards laid in seven columns. Cards in columns must be placed in descending order and alternate between red and black suits. For example, you can place a black 2 on a red 3.
You can also move sequential runs of cards between columns, and fill empty columns with a King.
To move a card, simply click on it to highlight it, then click on the space you'd like to place the card. Once a card is placed in an Ace pile, you can't retrieve it, so you'll want to try to fill your Ace piles fairly evenly. You're looking to get four nice columns of King, Queen, Jack, 10, and so on, up through a 2 so that filling your Ace piles is nice and simple (and really quite boring once you've realized you'll win and all you have to do is transfer cards from the play area to the Ace piles).
Each time you move the uppermost face-up card in a column, the lowest face-down card will be revealed. Once you've removed the last card from a column, you can take a King and place in that spot (in the screenshot above, the King in the draw pile can thus be moved to the empty column shown).
You can choose to draw-1 or draw-3 from the Draw Pile before starting each game. If you choose draw-1, you'll only get one pass through the draw pile; if you choose draw-3, you'll get three passes.
If you get all of the cards into their respective Ace piles, from Ace up to King, you win the game!
Scoring
You get points for every card you place in the Ace piles.
- Every Ace gets you 20 points
- Every card from 2 to Queen gets you 10 points
- Every King gets you a whopping 85 points
Your High Score, however, is cumulative; that is, your High Score is the total of your scores from every game played throughout the month. You'll only get Neopoints for the first 5,000 points each day, but you can continue to play for no NPs to add to your High Score.
Trophies
In addition to the trophies listed at the top of the page, which you can win for placing in the cumulative high score table, you can also win trophies outside of the high score table.
- Bronze: Win two games.
- Silver: Win five games.
- Gold: Win two games in a row.
This game is all about the luck of the draw; whether you are able to clear the board is largely down to chance. The only thing you can really do to increase your chances of receiving a trophy is to play a lot of games. Similarly, if you want to earn a trophy for having the highest cumulative score you will need to play a lot of games!
Item Prizes
Occasionally, you may also be awarded a prize upon winning a game. The items themselves aren't usually worth very much (as they are all of a relatively low rarity), but there is at least one prize which is exclusive to the game - the Solitaire Champion t-shirt.
