Nine cards from one entire pack.
Withdraw from one entire pack nine cards composing a sequence from ace to nine inclusive. Place these nine cards in three rows, each containing three cards. Endeavor, by changing their position, to dispose them so that the number of pips in each row, counting the cards horizontally, perpendicularly, and diagonally may make the sum of fifteen. The tableau shows only three fifteens, but if the cards are properly placed eight fifteens can be made.
(From Solitaire and patience: seventy games to test the card player's skill and make a lonely hour pass quickly, by George Hapgood [1908].)
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