Solitaire Card Game 7

Tam O' Shanter
This Auld Lang Syne variation is ideal for those who don't care if they ever win.
Foundations
The four aces, as they become available, are are to be placed in a row to form the foundations. These foundations are to be built in sequence to kings, regardless of suit.
Play
A row of four cards is dealt below the foundations to form the reserve. Top cards of the reserve piles are available for play on foundations. Spaces in the reserve are not filled except by the deal.
Hand
Whenever play comes to a standstill, deal four more cards from the hand, one on each pile or space.

The Plot
This game is not too difficult to win, but beware of covering foundation base cards on the tableau.
Pack

Two decks are used.
Layout
One card is dealt to the first foundation. Thirteen cards are dealt to the reserve pile above the tableau. Twelve cards are then dealt between the foundations to form the tableau.
Foundations
After the first foundation has been completed, the other seven cards of same rank are to be moved to the remaining foundations as they become available. The foundations are built up, regardless of suit, until each pile is thirteen cards.
Tableau
Tableau cards may be built down regardless of suit. The sequence is circular, making ace and king adjacent in rank. The top card of each pile is always available.
A space made by removal of an entire pile may be filled by any card from the wastepile or hand.
Wastepile
Turn up cards from the hand one by one, placing unplayable cards face up on the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile, as well as the card in the hand, is available for play.

The Wish
An ancient belief is that if you win this solitaire your wish of the moment will be granted.
Pack
All deuces, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 6's are discarded from the pack.
Play
The entire pack is dealt into eight piles of four cards each. Remove and discard cards from the tops of the piles in pairs. The game is won if the entire pack is so discarded.

Thirteens
A very basic game of the Simple Addition type.
Layout
The tableau is dealt in two rows of five cards each.
Play
Discard any kings and any pairs that total thirteen. Aces count as one, jacks count as eleven, and queens count as twelve. Spaces in the tableau are immediately filled from the hand. The game is won if the entire pack is discarded.

Thumb and Pouch
After losing at Klondike, you can finally win one with this much easier variation.
Layout
The completed tableau consists of seven piles increasing in number from one to seven cards, with the top card of each pile face up and the rest face down.
Foundations
The four aces, as they become available, are to be moved to a row above the tableau and built up in suit to kings.
Tableau
The face-up cards on the tableau are built down on any suit but their own. Face-up cards may be moved one at a time, in part or in whole.
Whenever a face-down card on one pile is exposed, it is turned up and becomes available.
Top cards of tableau piles are always available for play on foundations. Aces should be moved up as soon as possible, but any higher card can be kept on the tableau for building purposes, if the player wishes, rather than built on a foundation.
A space in the tableau, by removal of an entire pile, may be filled by any available card or group.
Wastepile
Turn up cards from the hand one by one, placing unplayable cards face up on the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile, as well as the card in the hand, is available for play.

Tournament
In this game, the tableau cannot be built so use free cells wisely.
Pack
Two decks are used.
Layout
Eight cards are dealt to free cells, four on each side of the tableau piles. Twenty-four cards are then dealt to a row of six tableau piles of four cards each.
Foundations
One ace and one king of each suit, as they become available, are to be placed in a row above the tableau. The aces are to be built up in suit to kings, and the kings down in suit to aces.
If the top cards of two foundations of the same suit are in sequence, cards may be moved from one foundation to the other, including the ace or king at the bottom.
Play
The top card of each tableau pile is always available for play on the foundations or on empty free cells. The free cells are available for play on the foundations. A space in the tableau is immediately dealt four cards from the hand. If the hand is empty, spaces are never filled.
Hand
Whenever play comes to a standstill, deal twenty-four more cards from the hand, four on each tableau pile.
Redeal
Two redeals are permitted. After the hand is exhausted and play is at a standstill, the cards are picked up in reverse of the order in which they were dealt to form a new hand.

Trefoil
This is La Belle Lucie made easier.
Foundations
The four aces are removed from the pack and placed in a column to be built up in suit to kings.
Layout
The remainder of the pack is dealt into sixteen piles of three face-up cards.
Play
Only one card at a time may be moved from the top of a pile. Top cards are available for building on foundations, or building on each other down in suit. A space by removal of an entire pile is never filled.
Redeal
Two redeals are permitted. All the cards except the foundation piles are picked up, shuffled, and dealt again in piles of three, with any one or two odd cards placed at the end in a separate pile.


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