Anna (Double Deck Solitaire Game)

Rules

1. Families are built upon the foundations in suit and descending sequence from knave down to ace and ending with king.
2. Marriages are made in suit and ascending sequence between exposed auxiliary cards, and upon the auxiliary cards from the pack as dealt.
3. If a queen appears in the original eight auxiliary cards, or in a vacancy, she cannot be removed for marriage, but must remain in her place. Marriages may be made upon such queen in the same manner as upon other auxiliary cards.
4. Cards as dealt, exposed auxiliary cards, and exposed cards of the talon, are available.

Play

Deal eight cards from the pack, arranged in the form of an A. These are the auxiliary cards.

If a knave appears, remove it and place it in such position that, with the other seven knaves as they are dealt, they will form a letter N. These knaves are the foundations to be built upon according to Rule 1.

Fill vacancies always from the pack.

Marry auxiliary cards as in Rule 2, but strictly observing Rule 3.

Deal from the pack, one by one, playing suitable cards as they appear according to Rules 1 and 2. Unsuitable cards form a talon.

Two re-deals are allowed.

If the game succeeds, the letter A will be all queens, and the foundations all kings.

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

The Reversal (Double Deck Solitaire Game)

Rules

1. Families are formed in suit upon the deuce-foundations in ascending sequence, ending with ace; upon ace-foundations in descending sequence through king, queen, etc., down to deuce.
2. Cards as dealt, all cards dropped to the right, and the exposed cards of the auxiliary packets, are available.

Play

Deal four cards in a row, and drop the next two dealt cards to the right; deal four more cards upon the first four, and again drop two to the right, as seen in the Tableau. These four packets are the auxiliary cards.

As the four aces and deuces of different suits appear, place the aces in a row below, and the deuces in a row above, the auxiliary row. These aces and deuces are the foundations for families according to Rule 1.

When all the suitable cards have been played upon the foundations, deal four more cards upon the auxiliaries, dropping two more cards to the right, and repeat the same routine until the pack is exhausted; then, if necessary, the dropped cards and the auxiliaries may be gathered together, and two fresh deals allowed; a fourth deal is also permissible, but without any dropped cards.

If the Patience is successful, the ace row and the deuce row will have changed places.

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

The Japanese Rug (Double Deck Solitaire Game)

Rules

1. Families are built upon the foundation aces in suit and ascending sequence up to king, and upon the foundation kings in suit and descending sequence down to ace.
2. Any card, on either of the four sides of the rug, whose narrow end is exposed, is available, and when an available card is removed it releases any other card whose narrow end it had previously obstructed.

Play

Take from the pack the four aces and kings of different suits, and arrange them in a row, the aces to the left, the kings to the right. These are the foundation cards to be built upon according to Rule 1.

Deal sixty-four cards from the pack in eight rows of eight cards each, alternately upright and longways, both in the rows and columns, as displayed in the Tableau.
According to Rule II, at the start the cards marked with a * are available, and any of them that are suitable are played upon the foundations.

Then deal the remainder of the pack, one by one, playing suitable cards as they appear, and unsuitable cards upon the talon. Watch each card as it is placed upon the talon, because available cards from the rug may be married upon it in suit and in ascending or descending sequence, thus possibly releasing suitable cards in the rug for the foundations; such marriages should be done in any case when possible, to reduce the rug.

Two re-deals are permitted.

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