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Klondike is played with a standard 52-card deck, without Jokers. After shuffling, a tableau of seven fanned piles of cards is laid from left to right. From left to right, each pile contains one more card than the last. The first and left-most pile contains a single upturned card, the second pile contains two cards, and so forth.
Minor aspects of the presentation are adjustable, for example the cards can be dealt either face-up or face-down. If they are dealt face-down then the spectator must look through each of the piles until finding which one contains the selected card, whereas if they are dealt face-up then an attentive spectator can immediately answer the question of which pile contains the selected card.
Forming these nine tableau piles of cards, i.e. dealing the cards, is like much like Klondike. One face-up card is placed on the first column, then eight cards are each placed face-down on the other eight depots. Over these eight face-down cards are one face-up card and seven face-down cards, and so on until all nine depots have a face-up card.
A feature in some games whereby placing a card under an existing pile releases the top card which must be now played next. See, e.g. Travellers and its variants. [11] singleton A single care of any suit. [5] solitaire North American name for games of patience. [9] space A gap in the tableau due to the removal of a singleton card or a pile of cards.
The new top cards are available for play and, once again, any Kings or combinations totalling 13 are moved to the discard pile. When the top card of a pile is discarded, the card beneath becomes immediately available. Play continues in this way until there are only two cards left in hand; these are used as grace cards, [b] being added to the ...
Deal four cards in a row face up. If there are two or more cards of the same suit, discard all but the highest-ranked card of that suit. Aces rank high. Repeat step 2 until there are no more pairs of cards with the same suit. Whenever there are any empty spaces, you may choose the top card of another pile to be put into the empty space.
This is a list of patiences, which are card games that are also referred to as solitaires or as card solitaire. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but only includes games that have met the usual Wikipedia requirements (e.g. notability). Additions should only be made if there is an existing entry on Wikipedia that they can be linked to.
One deck of cards (minus jokers) is used. The deck is shuffled and twelve piles of four cards each are laid out, face down, in a circle. The remaining four cards are placed, also face down, in a pile in the center of the circle. The twelve positions around the circle represent the 12-hour clock and the pile in the middle represents the hands.