Attribution note: this page was derived from this wikipedia article). Eight Off is a form of solitaire, named after its employment of eight reserve slots, played with one deck of playing cards. The object of the game is to move all the cards into the foundations. The cards are dealt, face up, into eight columns (or piles) of six cards each. (These eight columns make up the tableau.) The remaining four cards go into the reserve. When dealt, the table should look somewhat like this: