Josephine is a patience or

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card game using two decks of playing cards.Josephine Solitaire Rules
''Solitaire Central''. Accessed 14 October 2020 The object of the game is to move all of the cards to the Foundations. It is a variant of the more commonly known

Napoleon at St Helena Napoleon at St Helena is a 2-deck patience or solitaire card game for one player. It is quite difficult to win, and luck-of-the-draw is a significant factor. The Emperor Napoleon often played patience during his final exile to the island of St H ...

(sometimes known in America as Forty Thieves), and is named after Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife.

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Josephine has eight

Foundations Foundation may refer to: * Foundation (nonprofit), a type of charitable organization ** Foundation (United States law), a type of charitable organization in the U.S. ** Private foundation, a charitable organization that, while serving a good cause ...

located towards the top that build up in suit from Ace to King, e.g. A♣, 2♣, 3♣, 4♣... The

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is filled with ten

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containing four cards each that

build down 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 ...

in suit, e.g. 8♥, 7♥, 6♥, 5♥... One card up at a time is dealt from the

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. The top cards and cards dealt from the deck can be played onto the Tableau Piles or onto the Foundations. Sequenced cards of the same suit can be moved as a group throughout the Tableau. Any card can be played onto an empty tableau

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. There are no redeals.

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* Coops, Helen Leslie (1939). ''100 Games of Solitaire''. Whitman. 128 pp. Double-deck patience card games Simple packers

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