Golf

For 1 Player - Level: Difficult

Layout: Deal seven rows of five cards each, so that the layout looks like this:

Deal one card below, which will start the waste pile.

To win the game: Get rid of the entire layout by building up and down on the waste pile, regardless of suit.

Play: Only the exposed cards of the layout are available for building. In the example above, the 5 of Hearts can go on the waste pile; the 4 of Spades can go on that, opening the way for the 3 of Hearts. Then you can go in the other direction with the 4 of Clubs, and so on.

You can't build anything on a King. When you put a King on the waste pile, you've ended the sequence. Whenever you end a sequence - by putting down a King or not being able to make another move - you can take a card from the stock pile of 17 cards that never got into the layout. Place the card on the waste pile and resume play. If you use up all the cards in the pack, and still have cards in the layout, you've lost the game.

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