House On The Hill Solitaire
HOW TO PLAY
House on the Hill is a solitaire card
game with uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. The game is basically
a two-deck version of La Belle Lucie, but it borrows two things from its
cousin Shamrocks. The object of the game is to place all the cards into
eight foundations.
The cards are dealt in sets of three,
resulting in 34 piles, with two cards left over as a thirty-fifth. The
top card of each pile is available for play.
The cards on the tableau are built either
up or down by suit; the player can have the cards go both directions at
the same pile. However, an ace cannot be placed on a king and vice
versa; aces, one of each suit, must occupy four of the eight
foundations, the kings, also one of each suit, must occupy the other
four. The aces are built up by suit up to kings, the kings are built
down by suit to aces. Furthermore, when a pile becomes empty, it cannot
be filled.
The game is won when all 104 card end up
in the foundations. As already mentioned, it is basically a two-deck
version of La Belle Lucie. But the two things that make this game also
similar to Shamrocks is the building the cards up or down.
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