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Game info: Two-Deck game type; 2 decks; 2 redeals

Alternate names: Italian Caprice.

• Game time: Long
• Difficulty level: Medium
• Skill level: Mostly skill
• Chance of winning: Medium (about 1 in 6)

Object of the game: Move all the cards to the foundations.

Solitaire Rules

• An Ace and a King of each suit are removed from the stock to become the foundations.

Foundations (8 piles: complete these piles to win the game)

• Build the Ace foundations up in suit from Ace to King (for example, a 2 can be played on an Ace).

• Build the King foundations down in suit from King to Ace (for example, a Queen can be played on a King).

Tableau (12 columns in 2 rows of 6 cards each)

• Deal the entire deck, one card at a time consecutively to each pile, without missing a pile.

During the deal:

• Play any suitable card dealt from the stock to the foundations. Then fill its place on the tableau with the next card dealt.

• No cards from the tableau can be moved.

After the whole stock is dealt:

• The top card of each pile is available for play on another tableau pile or to the foundations.

• Build up or down in suit (for example, a 10 can be played either on a 9 or a Jack).

• You may change direction on the same pile.

• Ranking of cards is not continuous: an Ace may be built only on a 2, a King only on a Queen.

• Only one card at a time can be moved in the tableau.

• Spaces may be filled with any available card.

Stock

• Two redeals are permitted (three deals in all).

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