Batsford is a patience or

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similar to Klondike except that it uses two decks instead of one. The cards are turned up one at a time during a single pass through the deck, and there is also a

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available for a single King.

Rules

The object of this game is to move all cards to the foundations. There are eight foundations that build up from Ace to King in suit, (e.g. A♣, 2♣, 3♣, 4♣...) There are ten dêpôts in the tableau ranging from one to ten cards long, and which build down in

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, (e.g. 10♠, 9♥, 8♠, 7♦...) Cards in the tableu can be moved to a foundation or onto another tableau stack. Only a King can be moved to an empty space. The layout also includes a single

where a single King can be held. File:Batsford (solitaire) Layout.jpg, Batsford Layout The

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is turned up one card up at a time. The

topmost card Games of patience, or (card) solitaires as they are usually called in North America, have their own 'language' of specialised terms such as "building down", "packing", "foundations", "talon" and "tableau". Once learnt they are helpful in des ...

can be moved to the foundations or the tableau. Only one pass is allowed through the deck, making this an extremely hard game to win.

References

* Coops, Helen Leslie (1939). ''100 Games of Solitaire.'' Whitman. 128 pp. * Parlett, David (1979). ''The Penguin Book of Patience'', London: Penguin.

Rules

References

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