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].)