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This game is played with two decks of cards. First, 4 A in 4 suits and 4 K in 4 suits are dealt as the start of 8 foundation piles. The aim of the game is to put all the cards to the foundation piles. The foundation piles are built with cards of the same suit, where the piles starting with A are built up and the piles starting with K are built down. Below the foundation piles, 8 tableau piles are dealt, each pile has 4 cards. The remaining cards form the stock pile. Each time you flip a card from the stock pile to the waste pile, and you can move the waste card to the foundations if possible. For the tableau piles, no new cards can be stacked on them, you can move a tableau card to the foundation piles or to the waste pile, if the waste card is of the same suit and is one point higher or lower than the tableau card (K wraps to A). When the stock cards are used up, the waste cards can be turned to become the stock cards again, and you can do this twice in the game. The trick of this game is to plan strategically which tableau cards to stack to the waste pile. The more cards you can put to the foundation piles, the higher your score.

At the start of the game 7 tableau piles will be dealt. The first pile has 1 card, the second pile has 2 cards, and so on until the seventh pile has 7 cards. After that one extra card is dealt as the start of the first foundation pile, there are 4 foundation piles and each will have to start from a card with this number. The aim of the game is to put all the cards to the foundation piles. The foundation piles are built up by cards of the same suit, wrapping from K to A if necessary. The tableau piles can be built down by cards of the same colour, also wrapping from A to K if necessary. If the cards in the tableau pile are stacked not only by the same colour but also by the same suit, then you can move the group of cards together. An empty tableau pile can be filled by any card. When you cannot find any moves, then you can click the stock pile and then one card will be dealt to each of the tableau piles. After 3 rounds of dealing the stock cards, 2 cards are left and the 2 cards can be laid out and can be used to stack to the tableau piles or put to the foundation piles. Try to empty the tableaus and stack the cards according to suit if possible. If there are no more moves, then you can click the "give up" button to end the game. The more cards you put to the foundation piles, the higher your score.