Colours is a
solitaire card game
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which is played using a deck of
playing card
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s. Its gameplay puts it on the same family as
Sir Tommy Sir Tommy, also called Old Patience, is a patience or solitaire card game using a single pack of 52 playing cards. It is said to be the ancestor of all patiences, hence its alternative title. It is a half-open, planner type of patience game in the ...
,
Strategy, and
Calculation.
Colours is so called because of its emphasis on colour. The game is a variation of the solitaire game Lady Betty.
Rules
The cards are shuffled, then dealt out one by one the foundations or onto one of six waste piles, the top cards of which are available for building ''only'' on the foundations.
A two, a three, a four, and a five are needed to start the foundations. The deuce and the four should be of one colour (regardless of suit) and the trey and the five be of the other colour. Naturally, the colour of the first foundation card that turns up during dealing dictates the colours of the other cards. The foundations are built up by colour.
Dealing of cards from the stock continues until the stock runs out. The game is won when all of the cards are built onto the foundations, which should have an ace, a deuce, a trey, and a four on top.
Variations
Lady Betty is more like
Sir Tommy Sir Tommy, also called Old Patience, is a patience or solitaire card game using a single pack of 52 playing cards. It is said to be the ancestor of all patiences, hence its alternative title. It is a half-open, planner type of patience game in the ...
in that it requires you to build the foundations by suit rather than colour, but like Colours it gives two extra tableau piles to work with.
Sources:
* Dalton, Basil. ''The Complete Patience Book''
* Hervey, George F. ''Enjoying Card Games for One''
* Parlett, David. ''The Penguin Book of Patience''
See also
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Sir Tommy Sir Tommy, also called Old Patience, is a patience or solitaire card game using a single pack of 52 playing cards. It is said to be the ancestor of all patiences, hence its alternative title. It is a half-open, planner type of patience game in the ...
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List of solitaires
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Glossary of solitaire
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 de ...
Single-deck patience card games
Planners (games)
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