House in the Woods (also known as House in the Wood
) is a
patience
(or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced ...
game which uses two decks of 52
playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a fi ...
s. The game is basically a two-deck version of
La Belle Lucie
La Belle Lucie is a patience or card solitaire where the object is to build the cards into the foundations. It is considered to be representative of the "fan" family of solitaire card games, and has a pleasing layout.
While the game originat ...
, but it borrows two things from its cousin
Shamrocks
Shamrocks is a solitaire game akin to La Belle Lucie. The object is the same as the latter: move the cards into the foundations.
Rules
The game is layout out as in La Belle Lucie: seventeen piles of three cards are placed on the table with one ca ...
, namely the building of cards up or down and the fact that there are no redeals.
Rules
The cards are dealt in sets of three, resulting in 34 piles, with two cards left over as a thirty-fifth. The top card of each pile is available for play.
The cards on the tableau are built either up or down by suit; the player can have the cards go both directions at the same pile. However, an ace cannot be placed on a king and vice versa; an ace should be transferred to the foundations. Furthermore, when a pile becomes empty, it cannot be filled. All eight foundations are built up in suit starting from aces.
The object of the game is to place all 104 cards on the eight foundations.
House in the Woods can be won nine times out of ten, provided that the player plays optimally and without mistakes.
Variants
House on the Hill is closely related
patience
(or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced ...
game that also uses two decks. It is played with the same rules as those of House in the Woods except that while the four aces must occupy four of the eight foundations, the four kings must occupy the other four. The aces are built up by suit up to kings, the kings are built down by suit to aces.
References
See also
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La Belle Lucie
La Belle Lucie is a patience or card solitaire where the object is to build the cards into the foundations. It is considered to be representative of the "fan" family of solitaire card games, and has a pleasing layout.
While the game originat ...
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Shamrocks
Shamrocks is a solitaire game akin to La Belle Lucie. The object is the same as the latter: move the cards into the foundations.
Rules
The game is layout out as in La Belle Lucie: seventeen piles of three cards are placed on the table with one ca ...
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List of solitaires
This is a list of patiences, which are card games that are also referred to as solitaires or as card solitaire.
This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but only includes games that have met the usual Wikipedia requirements (e.g. notability). ...
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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 des ...
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Open packers
Double-deck patience card games