Nestor (Single Deck Solitaire Game)

One Entire Pack of Cards.

Rules

1. Only cards in the sixth or lowest row are available, until by their removal those cards above them are released. No card can at any time be uacd that has any other card below it. When no more pairs can be made from the tableau, and further progress is at an end, recourse may be had to the Reserve, any card of which may be employed to assist in the formation of new pairs.

Play

Deal the cards in six rows of eight cards each, so that they will form eight vertical, columns of six cards each, as shown in the pattern tableau.

If in dealing out the tableau any card appears of the same denomination as one already in the same column above it, place it at the bottom of the pack, and continue dealing—taking care that no two cards of the same value are found in any one vertical column. The four remaining cards form a separate Reserve. Only the cards in the sixth or lowest row (the base of the columns) are available, but the removal of any one of them releases the card immediately above it.

The object of this Patience is to pair all the cards. If no pairs can be made with the cards at the base of the columns, any of the four auxiliary cards in the Reserve may be employed to pair with available cards in the tableau.

For example, if the cards were laid out as exhibited in the pattern tableau, the reserve would be an ace, deuce, ten, and king. Always bearing in mind that only the lowest card of each cf the columns, or any card in the Reserve, is available, the pairs would be made in the following order:

Pair the nines, sevens, aces, kings, threes, contiguous knaves, the eights of the third and sixth columns, the deuces, fours, sixes, knaves, queens, eights, fives, and tens.

As there are now no more available pairs in the tableau, take the king from the Reserve and pair kings, sevens, and threes.

Then, using the ace and deuce from the Reserve, pair deuces, aces, nines, fives, and queens; the remaining five cards in the tableau and the ten in the Reserve, being all available, will pair off and the Patience has succeeded.

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