Friday, June 25, 2010

The Dial, No. 2 (Single Deck Solitaire Game)


Rules

  1. Families are built upon the foundations in suit and ascending sequence, each foundation ending with the hour that its location occupies upon the dial.
  2. Cards as dealt, and the exposed card of the talon, are available.

Play

Select from the pack an ace, five, and nine of diamonds; a two, six, ten of clubs; three, seven, knave of hearts; four, eight, queen of spades. Arrange these in rotation in a circle, commencing with the ace at eight o'clock, and in sequence around the dial, ending with the queen at seven o'clock, as shown in the Tableau. These are the foundations to be built upon according to Rule 1.

Kings are placed, as dealt, in the centre.

In family sequence, the ace follows the queen. The eleven o'clock foundation will end with knave; the twelve o'clock, with queen; the other foundations are complete as soon as they reach the hour denoted by their respective places on the dial.

Unsuitable cards form a talon.

Two re-deals are allowed.

(From Dick's games of patience: or, Solitaire with cards, ed. Harris B. Dick [1898].)

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