To be considered won, all cards (cards from the pyramid and cards from the stock) must be moved to the foundation.

A perfect score is therefore zero, where all cards have been matched into the Foundation. To score, count the number of remaining face up cards in the pyramid. (A variation, Par Pyramid, allows the waste to be turned over twice and dealt as a new stock.) Once the stock is exhausted and/or no more pairs can be made, the game ends. The top card of the waste pile can be matched at any time with the next card drawn from the stock, or any uncovered card in the pyramid. If no match is made, the drawn stock card is played into a waste pile. You may draw cards from the stock one at a time and match them with any exposed card. Discarded cards are removed from play and cannot be re-matched with other cards.

In order to be removed, cards must not be covered, so when an Ace rests on a Queen, that Queen can not be removed. Thus, kings can be removed immediately to the foundation. To play, pairs of uncovered cards can be removed to the foundation if their values total 13. The remaining cards are placed to the side face down, and make up the Stock. To set up the pyramid, one card is dealt face up at the top of the playing area, then two cards beneath and partially covering it, then three beneath them, and so on completing with a row of seven cards for a total of 28 cards dealt (or six rows of 21 cards). Under the strictest rules, the odds of winning are around 1 in 50.

When using the standard 52-card deck, Jacks are valued at 11, Queens at 12, and Kings at 13. The object of the game is to remove pairs of cards that add up to a total of 13, the equivalent of the highest valued card in the deck, from a pyramid arrangement of 28 cards. Pyramid is a patience or solitaire game of the Simple Addition family, where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation. The initial layout of the game of Pyramid

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