St. Louis (Double Deck Solitaire Game)

Two Entire Packs of Cards.

Rules

1. Any card in the series of twelve auxiliary cards first dealt is available. After the first round, and as soon as the deal has been completed, not before, the uppermost card of each of the auxiliary packets becomes available.
2. The foundations follow suit.
3. Marriages are formed in suit.

Play

Take the four aces and four kings from one pack and arrange them as shown in the pattern tableau. These are the foundations, and families are built upon them in suit, in ascending sequence upon the aces and in descending sequence on the kings.

Next, deal twelve auxiliary cards one by one from the pack in the spaces marked in the tableau, commencing at the space marked a and dealing round, to the left, "the way of the clock," to the space marked m. If any of these twelve auxiliary cards are suitable, play them on the foundations and re-fill vacancies from the pack.

After all the suitable cards in this first series have been used on the foundations, and the vacant spaces re-filled, deal out another series of twelve cards upon the first series, and continue the deal around until all the pack is exhausted. As soon as the deal is completed, not before, the uppermost cards of the auxiliary packets all become available, both for building on the foundations, and for intermarriage in suit in ascending and descending sequence.

When all suitable cards have been played, all possible marriages formed, and further progress is at an end, take up the twelve packets, commencing with the left-hand packet of the top row marked g, placing them one on the other, the way of the clock, until the packet f is reached and included. Then, without shuffling, deal them out again in the same manner as at first.

If, in forming the families, a suitable card is applicable equally to an ascending and descending sequence, it may be held over until further developments show to which series it will be best to apply it.

Two re-deals are permitted.

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