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Laggard Lady
Intrigue is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is similar to another solitaire game called Salic Law (solitaire), Salic Law, but it also involves the queens and building in the foundations goes both ways. Rules First, one queen is removed from the rest of the deck and placed on the layout as the base for the first tableau column. As they become available, all fives and sixes are placed at the foundations above the queens. The fives are built down to Aces, then to Kings, while the sixes are built up to Jacks, all regardless of suit. Over the first queen, the cards are dealt over it until another queen appears. This new queen becomes the base for a new tableau column and cards are dealt over it. This is repeated until all eight queens are uncovered and all cards are dealt. During the dealing, all fives and sixes are immediately placed in the foundations and any card that be built on the foundations must be placed there. Once all cards are d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solitaire
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These games include peg solitaire and mahjong solitaire. The game is most often played by one person, but can incorporate others. History The origins of Card Solitaire or Patience are unclear, but the earliest records appear in the late 1700s across northern Europe and Scandinavia. The term ''Patiencespiel'' appears in ''Das neue Königliche L’Hombre-Spiel'', a German book published in 1788. Books were also reported to appear in Sweden and Russia in the early 1800s. There are additional references to Patience in French literature. In the United States, the first card solitaire book, ''Patience: A series of thirty games with cards'', was published by Ednah Cheney in 1870. The most popular card solitaire is Klondike, which was called Microsoft So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
