Two Entire Packs of Cards.
Rules
- The uppermost card of each one of the eight auxiliary packets and of the talon is available.
- Families are built on the foundations in ascending sequence, but in alternate color—that is, a red deuce is played on a black ace, then a black three, a red four, and so on up to a black king. The families on the red aces are built in similar alternate order up to a red king.
- Marriages are formed on the auxiliary packets in descending sequence but in alternate color (Rule 2).
Play
Remove from the two packs the eight aces and arrange them in the order designated in the pattern tableau. These are the foundation cards and families are built up on them according to Rule 2.
Immediately below the foundations place a row of eight auxiliary cards. These cards are always available, and marriages may be formed upon them (Rule 3).
After the tableau has been placed examine the row of eight aux iliary cards to see if it contains any suitable cards to play on the foundations or to form marriages (Rules 2 and 3).
When you have played or married all the suitable cards, re-fill, from the pack, any vacant spaces that may occur in the auxiliary cards.
Continue dealing the cards one by one, and as suitable cards appear play them on the foundations. Also form all possible marriages on the auxiliary packets. Those cards which are not suitable are laid aside in one packet and form a talon, and all vacancies must now be re-filled from the talon, or, if there be no talon, then from the pack.
One re-deal is permitted.
The following is an interesting variety of this Patience:
The Blondes and Brunettes
Instead of the foundation aces being placed before commencing to play, they are laid out in the spaces allotted to them as they appear during the deal. This, of course, makes the Patience more difficult, and two re-deals are therefore permitted, simply turning the talon each time.
(From Dick's games of patience: or, Solitaire with cards, by William Brisbane Dick [1884].)
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