King Albert

Idiot's Delight

For 1 Player - Level: Easy

Layout: Deal a row of nine cards face up. Then deal a row of eight cards face up on top of them, leaving the first card uncovered.

Continue placing rows of cards, each one card less than the row before, leaving the first card uncovered. You'll have seven cards left when you finish laying out the cards. These are "free" cards, which you can use any way you want - on the layout or the foundations.

To win the game: Release the Aces, and build them up to Kings in suit.

Play: Once the cards are laid out, play whatever you can to the foundations, which you set up above the layout. Then build on the layout itself - downwards in alternating colours.

Only one card at a time maybe built on the foundations or the layout.

A space may be filled by any available card.

From '101 Favourite Card Games for One'.
© 1992 Sheila Anne Barry.