Perseverance (Single Deck Solitaire Game)

Rules

1. Families are built upon the foundations in suit and ascending sequence from ace up to king.
2. Marriages can be made between exposed cards of the auxiliary packets, in suit and descending sequence.
3. Exposed cards of the auxiliary packets are available.

Play

Take the four aces from the pack and place them in a row. These are the foundations to be built upon according to Rule 1.

Deal the remainder of the pack into twelve packets of four cards each. These are the auxiliary packets.

Play all suitable cards upon the foundations. Marry suitable exposed cards as stated in Rule 2.

When the game is blocked, gather the packets and deal them again into as many packets of four cards each as the cards allow.

This may be repeated as often as necessary until two such deals in succession fail to produce any suitable card for the foundations. The game is then finally blocked.

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