Bisley Solitaire
Bisley is a solitaire card
game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the few
one-deck games in which the player has options on which foundation a
card can be placed.
First the four aces are taken out and
laid on the tableau to start the foundations. Then four columns of
three cards are placed overlapping each other separately under the
aces. After that, nine columns of four cards, also overlapping each
other, are dealt to the right of the aces and first four columns. If
the player decides to lay out all of the cards, he must make sure
that there are four rows of thirteen cards and the first four cards
on the first row should be the four aces.
Here is the method of game play:
- Only the bottom cards are
available for play. Thus, if the cards are overlapping, it is
the exposed card of each column; if the cards are laid out, it
is the card at the bottom each column.
- Only one card can be moved at a
time.
- The cards on the tableau can be
built either up or down by suit.
- Whenever a column becomes empty,
it stays empty for the rest of the game.
- The foundations (the four aces)
are built up by suit. However, whenever a King is released and
becomes available, it becomes a foundation and is placed above
its counterpart ace foundation to be built down, also by suit.
The same thing can be done for the three other kings. This rule
also gives the player an opportunity to place a card on one of
the foundations of the same suit if it can be placed on either
of them.
The game is won when all cards end up
in the foundations. It actually does not matter where the ace and
king foundations of each suit would meet and how many cards the ace
and king foundations of each suit will have. At the end of one game
for example, the K♠ is the only one on its foundation while the rest
of spade cards are built on the A♠; the A♣ remains unbuilt because
all club cards are built on the K♣; the A♥
is built up to 4♥ while the K♥
is built down to 5♥; and the A♦
is built up to 8♦ while the K♦
is built down to 9♦. In fact, the ace and
king foundation of a suit can meet anywhere.
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