Paul Alfille changed Baker's Game by making cards build according to alternate colors, thus creating FreeCell. FreeCell's origins may date back even further to 1945 and a Scandinavian game called Napoleon in St. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit rather than by alternate colors. In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardener described in his 'Mathematical Games' column a game by C. One of the oldest ancestors of FreeCell is Eight Off. The game is won after all cards are moved to their foundation piles.While computer implementations often show this motion, players using physical decks typically move the tableau at once. Complete or partial tableaus may be moved to build on existing tableaus, or moved to empty cascades, by recursively placing and removing cards through intermediate locations.Any cell card or top card of any cascade may be moved to build on a tableau, or moved to an empty cell, an empty cascade, or its foundation.Tableaus must be built down by alternating colors.
Some alternate rules will use between four to ten cascades. Some alternate rules use between one to ten cells.
