Uncle Sam (Double Deck Solitaire Game)

Use two packs of cards.

Follow suit on the foundations.

Take from the pack all the sixes and sevens and arrange them so that the sixes form the letter U, and the sevens the letter S, as in the tableau. Lay beneath them, in a horizontal line, thirteen cards representing the thirteen original states.

With the U and S as a foundation begin playing from the thirteen cards, following suit. Upon the sixes descend in sequence to aces, and upon the sevens ascend in sequence to kings. When all suitable cards have been played from the "states," fill vacancies and continue as before, playing from the states when the cards become suitable, and immediately refilling. The unsuitable cards are placed to one side, forming the talon, which may be taken up and dealt once after the pack in hand is exhausted.

If the game succeeds, the states will all have been used in building up the U. 8., which will then show only aces and kings.

(From Solitaire and patience: seventy games to test the card player's skill and make a lonely hour pass quickly, by George Hapgood [1908].)