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New Zealand Patience

Original Solitaire

Game info: Forty Thieves type; 1 decks (52 cards); no redeal

  • Game time: Quick
  • Difficulty level: Easy
  • Skill level: Mostly chance
  • Chance of winning: High; about 1 in 3; 33.3%

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

Solitaire Rules

Foundations (4 piles: complete these piles to win the game)

  • Build up regardless of suit (for example, a 2 can be played on an Ace).

  • The second foundation cannot be started until the first foundation is complete, and so on.

Tableau (4 columns)

  • Build down regardless of suit (for example, a 5 can be played on a 6).

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

  • A packed sequence, or any portion of it, may be moved to another tableau pile.

  • Spaces may be filled with any available card or packed sequence.

Stock

  • Turn up one card at a time from the stock to the waste by clicking.

  • There is no redeal.

Waste

  • The top card is available for play to the foundations or to the tableau.

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