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solitaire
Calculation Solitaire Strategy
Objective: To build four suites in a row based on the foundation
card. Each card on the foundation card is to be twice that of the base card and each suite
is to be built upwards to the king, regardless of suite, by the internal prescribed by the
foundation card .
Calculation begins with the bottom of four foundations showing;
ace, two, three and four. You can build on these foundations in the following sequence,
and only in this sequence:
If the foundation card is A the next cards can be,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K
foundation card 2,next card 4,6,8,10,Q,A,3,5,7,9,J,K
foundation card 3, next card 6,9,Q,2,5,8,J,A,4,7,10,K
foundation card 4, next card 8,Q,3,7,J,2,6,10,A,5,9,K
Pick one card from the deck at a time and add it to one of the foundations if you can,
following these four card sequences. If you can't add the card to a foundation, place it
on one of the four wastepiles below the foundations. The top card on each wastepile can be
added to a foundation when its turn in the sequence comes up. Be careful; the way you
distribute the cards on the wastepiles might help you win, or lose. There is not redeal.
Tips: As a rule one wastepile has to be earmarked for kings. To lay a king on any lower
card is hazardous, since it can be removed only by building up one foundation complete.
But when three kings, possible two, have been laid in the reserve, it may be advisable to
use all four piles for lower cards and change that the remaining kinds will not come too
soon.
The natural policy is to try to build descending sequences on the wastepiles,
corresponding to the foundation sequences. Of course, the cards are rarely so kind as to
allow these builds to be extended very far, but a judicious scattering of sequences of two
to four cards works wonders.
As a rule, avoid laying a card on a pile that contains another of the same rank, but this
rule may well be ignored to maintain a correct sequence.
The finest art revolves around keeping track of how soon or late certain cards may be
needed; how deep and with what cards they may be safely covered; whether a card should be
played on a foundation or held back to develop another foundation. |
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