Vegas scoring turns Solitaire into a little wager. You “buy” the deck, every card you send home pays you back, and you only get a limited number of trips through the deck. Here is exactly how it works on Everyday Games.
The rules
Each game costs $52, one dollar per card.
Every card on a foundation earns $5. Take a card back off the foundation and you give the $5 back.
Draw 1 allows a single pass through the deck; Draw 3 allows three.
Your result for the game is what you earned minus the $52. Clearing all 52 cards wins $208 overall.
The bankroll
Your total carries over from game to game, so you can see whether you’re up or down over a session. You can reset it to $0 from New game whenever you like. Vegas games keep their own records, separate from standard scoring.
How to come out ahead
You break even at 11 cards home (11 × $5 = $55), so every card past that is profit.
With few passes, look hard before turning the deck: plan where each stock card can go.
Free face-down cards in the columns first; they’re the cards you can’t plan around.
Send Aces and Twos home at once, but keep other cards in the columns while they might still be needed.
Standard or Vegas?
Standard scoring rewards moves and speed and lets you go through the deck as often as you like, which makes more games winnable. Vegas is tighter and more strategic. Try both from New game: pick Standard or Vegas, then Draw 1 or Draw 3.