Different Types of the Popular Card Game Solitaire
The game of solitaire is one of the favorite past times of people
throughout the world. This is because you do not need another player to
be able to play the game. You can spend a lazy afternoon just playing
the game and it is actually enjoyable even if it is an old type of card
game. If you have not learned this type of card game yet, then the
following will give you a quick over view with the different types of
Solitaire card game. The main goal of the game is to be able arrange
the cards in play in a certain manner. The variation of the game would
then come from the arrangement of the cards and the playing process. The
following is a short list of solitaire card games.
- Klondike Solitaire – This involves a 52-card deck and
with 4 foundations and 7 columns of increasing number of downturned
cards. Each of the end-card of the column is upturned and so is the
first column. With this rule, the first column should only contain 1
upturned card and the last column will have 6 downturned cards with
one upturned card on top. The drawing of the cards from the
remainder of deck is by threes. The arrangement in the columns is
alternating colors and decreasing number. The 4 foundations areas
will contain each of the suites starting with an ace and ending with
a king. After all the cards are arranged here, the game is
completed.
- Spider Solitaire – Instead of just 7 columns, this card
game will have 10. 54 cards will be dealt in the columns with the
top card revealed. This will require 2 card decks and the
arrangement to be done with the revealed cards placed on the columns
is decreasing and same suits. The remaining 50 cards from the deck
will again be dealt on top of each of the 10 columns, given that
there are no columns empty. The game ends once all the columns are
arranged.
- Pyramid Solitaire – The goal of this game is again to
remove all the cards from the pyramid and into the foundation. Pair
of cards may be removed from the stack if they have a sum of 13. In
this game, an ace will have a value of 1, jack with 11, queen with
12 and a king with 13. Thus, a king can be removed from the stack
immediately and moved to the foundation. Only cards on top of the
pile may be moved. A card is drawn from the remainder of the deck
and can be paired with any of the top cards from the pyramid. The
pyramid will have one revealed card in the top, which is also the
bottom of the pile, and 7 revealed cards as the base, which is the
top cards of the pyramid pile. There will be no re-dealing of cards
from the deck and the game may be declared complete even if there
are remaining cards in the deck.
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