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HOW TO PLAY THE CARD GAME KLONDIKE

(1 deck)

Deal a row of 7 cards, the first (at left) face up and the others face down. These cards start your 7 piles, which we will consider to be numbered from 1 to 7, left to right.

Next, deal a card face up on pile 2 and one face down on each of piles 3 to 7. Continue with a card face up on pile 3 and cards face down on piles 4 to 7. Continue in the same way, ending with one card face up on pile 7. Thus each pile has as many cards in it as its number; the top card of each pile is face up and all the others are face down. The rest of the cards are left on the side, face down, as the stock.

You may move the face-up cards to build them on each other. In building, you must alternate colors, red on black or black on red, and go down in sequence of rank. Thus the 4 of clubs may be moved upon the 5 of hearts or on the 5 of diamonds. Kings are highest, and may be moved only into space created by removing entire piles.

In building, keep the cards spread downward so that you can read them all. When two or more cards are built on each other, move all of them as a unit. For example, if you have a black ten on a red Jack, you may move the two cards together onto a black Queen. Whenever you move the faceup cards away from a pile, turn up the top face-down card.

Aces are base cards. Whenever you have an Ace on a pile, or turn an Ace from the stock, put it in a base row above the piles. Build up on the Aces in suit and sequence: A, 2, 3, 4... J,Q,K.

To Win the Game you must get all four suits built up on the Aces.

After you have done all the building you can on the piles and Aces (if any), turn over the top card of the stock. (The stock is the undealt remainder of the deck.) Play this card on a pile or base if you can. If not, set it aside face up to start your wastepile. Continue turning up cards from the stock one by one, playing them when you can, and putting them on the wastepile when you can't. You may play off the top of the wastepile, if the next card turned alters the piles or bases so as to make such play possible.

You may go through the stock only once.

Skillful Play: You must put Aces in the base row whenever they turn up, but you are not compelled to build on them when you can. It sometimes pays to keep cards on the piles, instead of moving them to bases, in order to help in building.

The important thing is to uncover all the face-down cards as quickly as possible. With a choice of plays (such as black 9's on two piles with a red 10 elsewhere), play off of the pile containing the most face-down cards.

You may prefer, however, to play so as to reach a single face-down card, since you will get a space if you can build with that card. It is helpful to get spaces when you can because Kings may be moved only into spaces. If you have no spaces, any Kings that you turn up will stay where they are and thus prevent you from reaching the face-down cards underneath them.

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