Red and Black 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 ...
or
card solitaire
Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are inte ...
which uses two decks of
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 so called because all building is done in alternating colors of red and black. It is not related to another similarly named solitaire game of
Rouge et Noir (
French for ''red and black''), although Red and Black can also be known under that name. It is part of the
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 ...
family of patiences and solitaires.
The earliest account is given by "Tarbart" in 1905.
["Tarbart" (1905), pp. 188–189.] The rules presented here are those provided in Lee and Packard's book ''100 Best Solitaire Games'' (2015).
[Lee & Packard (2015).]
Rules
First, the eight aces are taken out of the stock to act as the foundations. Then eight cards are dealt under the aces to become the bases for the tableau columns.
The top cards in the tableau are available for play to the foundations or to the other cards in the tableau. The foundations are built up (each up to Kings) while the cards on the tableau are built down, all by alternating color. Any spaces are immediately filled by the top card of the wastepile, or if none is present, the top card of the stock.
When are no possible moves are made from the tableau, the stock is dealt one card at a time onto the wastepile, the top card of which is available for play to the tableau or the foundations.
The game ends soon after the cards of the stock are dealt onto the wastepile. The game is won when all cards are built onto the waste pile.
Variations
When popularly implemented in modern software suites, this game has the following common variations:
* Packed sequences can be moved as one unit.
* Spaces are filled by any available card or packed sequence.
See also
*
List of patiences and 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 patience and solitaire terms
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 ...
References
Bibliography
* Coops, Helen Leslie (1939). ''100 Games of Solitaire''. Whitman. 128 pp.
* Sloane Lee & Gabriel Packard (2015), ''100 Best Solitaire Games''. Las Vegas: Cardoza.
* "Tarbart" (1905). ''Games of Patience''. 2nd edn. De La Rue.
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Double-deck patience card games
Simple packers