Napoleon's Favorite (Double Deck Solitaire Game)

Two Entire Packs of Cards

Rules

1. After the first deal has been completed, the uppermost card of each packet is available, subject, however, to the following restrictions:
   
   
   
   • That card on each of the four packets immediately above the kings can only be employed to build up the families on the king foundations.
   • That card on each of the four packets immediately below the aces can only be used to build up the ace foundations. The uppermost card on each of the packets which are right and left of the foundation cards, may be played on any of the foundations without restriction.
   • The removal of the uppermost card from any packet releases the one beneath it.
   • After either re-deal is completed, all the uppermost cards of the twelve packets are available without any restrictions.
2. The foundations must follow suit.
3. Marriages may be formed in ascending or descending sequence, and need not follow suit.

Play

Withdraw from the pack and place the four aces and four kings as in the pattern tableau. These are the foundation cards. The four kings in the upper row begin with queens and descend in sequence to aces; the aces in the lower row begin with deuces and ascend in sequence to kings. 

Next shuffle the two packs, and deal four cards in a horizontal row above the kings, beginning at the left and dealing to the right; then deal one card at the right of the king row, and one at the right of the ace row.

Continue dealing four more cards under the ace row, beginning at the right and dealing to the left, and conclude by dealing one card each at the left end of the ace and king rows. Having dealt this first round, proceed to deal successive rounds, each covering the preceding one, until all the cards are exhausted.

After the deal has been completed, examine all the twelve packets and play all suitable cards upon the foundations subject to Rule 1. When all suitable cards have been played, proceed to form marriages upon any of the twelve packets. The sequences of the marriages may be transferred from packet to packet, provided Rule 3 is not infringed. 

Great judgment must be observed in forming the marriages, for it is by this means that suitable cards are released for the foundations. It is not good play to exhaust a packet entirely, when this can be avoided, for the more packets that remain, the more facilities are afforded for forming marriages. 

Two re-deals are permitted. 

 (From Dick's games of patience: or, Solitaire with cards, by William Brisbane Dick [1884].)