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Fortune's Favor or Fortune's Favour is a
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or solitaire
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which is played with a deck of 52
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s."Fortune's Favor" (p.34) in ''The Little Book of Solitaire'', Running Press, 2002. It is so-called probably because the chances of winning are completely on the player's side. It is a significantly simplified version of the game Busy Aces, a member of the
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family of solitaire games.


History

The rules were first published in England by
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in 1892 under the name The Four Seasons,Hoffmann (1892), pp. 32–33. a name subsequently assumed by
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with a different layout and packing scheme. He used a vertical layout with the foundations in the centre column. In 1898, Dick included it in his American compendium under the name Fortune's Favors and the name stuck, albeit with minor spelling variations.Dick (1898), pp. 22–23. For example, American authors, Morehead and Mott-Smith call it Fortune's Favour,Morehead & Mott-Smith (1949), p. 88. as does
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,Parlett (1979), p. 128. while Coops and Moyse call it Fortune's Favor.Coops (1939), p. 20.Moyse (1950), pp. 35–36. Parlett notes its original name of Four Seasons as an alternative. Morehead and Mott-Smith introduced a horizontal layout with the foundations as the top row.


Rules

First, the four aces are removed from the deck and placed in a row to form the bases of the
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. These foundations are built up by suit to kings. Below the foundations, two rows of six cards each (or any preferred arrangement of twelve cards) are dealt. These form the bases of the twelve
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. The
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s on the tableau piles are
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on the foundations and on the tableau. Building in the tableau is down by suit and spaces which result in moving a card are filled from the
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. Only one card can be moved at a time. The stock, when play comes to a standstill, is dealt one card at a time onto a wastepile, the top card of which is available for play on the tableau or foundations. The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations.


See also

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Forty Thieves Forty Thieves or 40 Thieves most often refers to the characters in the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. It may also refer to: Groups of people * Forty Thieves (New York gang), an 18th-century New York street gang * Forty Thieves (New Yor ...
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References


Bibliography

* Coops, Helen Leslie (1939). ''100 Games of Solitaire''. Whitman. 128 pp. Definitive Spre-war collection. * Dick, Harris B. (1898). ''Dick's Games of Patience; or, Solitaire with Cards''. 2nd Series. 113 pp. 70 games. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald. * Morehead, A. H. & G. Mott-Smith (1949). ''The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games.'' NY: Longmans * Moyse, Alphonse Jr. (1950). ''150 Ways to Play Solitaire''. Cincinnati: USPCC. 128 pp. “A pretty decent book” IA *
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(1979). ''The Penguin Book of Patience,'' London: Penguin. *
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ngelo Lewis(1892). ''The Illustrated Book of Patience Games''. London: Routledge. {{Patience Single-deck patience card games Simple packers