Marguerite (Single Deck Solitaire Game)

Rules

1. Families are built upon the foundations in suit and descending sequence.
2. The exposed card of the talon, and any card or cards in the A group, are available.

Play

The Tableau is formed by the kings, queens, and knaves of each suit, taken from the pack and arranged in the form of an M with a vacant space below the knaves.

The foundations are completed by three cards on each in descending sequence, as follows: —

• On each king,—the ten, nine, and eight of the same suit;
• On each queen,—the seven, six, and five of the same suit;
• On each knave,—the four, three, and two of the same suit.

Deal from the pack nine cards, arranged in the form of letter A.

As vacancies occur in the A group, they are filled from the pack; if no vacancies occur, the cards are dealt on the talon until suitable cards appear.

If two cards of the same suit should be dealt upon the talon in descending sequence,—a three upon a four, for instance,—it is clear that the game is blocked.

Aces, being of no use in the game, are placed, as they are dealt, upon the vacant spot below the knaves.

There is no re-deal allowed.

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