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].)