Klondike

Canfield, Demon Patience, Fascination, Small Triangle, Triangle

For 1 Player - Level: Difficult

Layout: Lay out seven cards in a row - face down except for the first card. Then put the eighth card face up on the second card in the row, and complete the row with face-down cards. Place a face-up card on the third pile, and finish off the row in the same way. Continue until you have a face-up card on every pile.

Your layout will look like this:

Aces are low in this game.

To win the game: Build up complete suits from Ace to King.

Play: First, look over the spread carefully. Move any cards that you can to the foundation row - Aces and any cards you can build on them.

You can also build cards on the layout itself. Only the face-up cards are available for this building, and only if they are the exposed cards of the pile. Then you can build downwards in alternating colours.

In the example, shown here, you can move the Ace to the foundation row, and then move the black 3 onto the red 4, and the red 2 onto the black 3.

Every time you move a face-up card, you need to turn up the face-down card beneath it. When there are no more face-down cards in a pile, you have a space. Spaces can be filled by any available King.

When you've made all the moves you can, start going through the stock pile one by one, looking for more cards to build onto the foundations and the layout. if you can't place the card, it goes face up onto a waste pile, and the top card of the waste pile is available for play.

Scoring: Five rounds make a game. Add up the number of foundation cards you've come up with in each round for your final score.

Agnes

Play exactly the same way as Klondike, except:

1. When you finish the layout, deal the next card above it to make the first foundation. Aces, of course, need to be played between the Kings and 2s.

2. Below the layout, deal a row of seven cards. These are available to be played onto the layout and the foundaions. Play as many of them as you like, and when you have no more moves to make, deal another seven cards on top of them. You'll probably have spaces in that row of seven; be sure not to skip them, when you deal the second row. After you deal a third layer of seven cards, you'll have two cards left in your hand. Turn them face up. They are available too.

3. Spaces in the layout maybe filled by any card that is one lower than the foundation card. For example, if the foundation card is a 2, the spaces can be filled only with Aces.

Klondike by Threes

This game is played exactly the same as Klondike, but you go through the stock pile of cards by threes. Because of that, you get redeals. Rules vary about how many redeals you get. Some say two (three trips through the cards), and some say as many as you want.

Redeals: Two (or more).

Thumb and Pouch

Play exactly the same way as Klondike, except:

1. When building, a card can be laid on any card that is one rank higher, regardless of colour - except one of its own suit.

2. A space may be filled by any available card or sequence of cards.

Whitehead

Play exactly the same way as Klondike, except:

1. Deal all the cards face up.

2. Instead of building in alternate colours, build red on red, black on black.

3. When spaces open up in the layout, fill them with any available card or group of cards.

4. When moving piles of cards as a unit, you may do it only where the cards are in sequence by suit.

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