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PLAYING A CARD GAME CALLED PERPETUAL MOTION

(1 deck)

Deal 4 cards face up in a row from left to right. If any are of the same rank (as 6's, Aces,.Jacks, etc.) move the others upon the one farthest left. Then deal 4 more cards from left to right on the 4 piles (counting a space as a pile if you have moved any of the first 4 cards). Play in the same way if you can, moving any two or more cards of the same rank upon the leftmost such card. All these moves must be one card (the top card) at a time; do not move a whole pile at a time. Continue dealing the deck 4 cards at a time on the previous piles, making what moves you can each time.

Having exhausted the deck, pick up the piles from right to left. That is, put pile 4 (at the right)), still face up, on pile 3 (at its left); put these two together on pile 2, and then the lot on pile 1. Be careful not to disarrange the order of the cards. Then turn the whole pile face down, forming a new stock. Go through it again in the same way. You may similarly deal out the stock any number of times, until you finally win the game, or are blocked.

Whenever the 4 cards you deal at one time prove to be of the same rank, throw all 4 cards out, thus reducing the size of the stock.

To Win the Game you must throw out the entire deck in batches of 4 of a rank.

You will see why the game is called Perpetual Motion the first time you play it. It really should be classed as an athletic game!

Related terms include free solitaire card game and drinking card game.