Lady Cadogan's Solitaire

By Lady Adelaide Cadogan

The completely redesigned classic Lady Cadogan's Solitaire—the first and most authoritative collection of rules of solitaire games ever published—includes easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams for fascinating solitaire variations, including:

• The Beautiful One
• Kings Over Queens
• The Four Corners
• The Mill
• The Blockade
• The Clock
• ...and more!

Lady Cadogan's Solitaire is the perfect companion for hours of entertainment playing the most relaxing yet challenging of all card games.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scott Nix, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781935622321

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Previously published as

Lady Cadogan’s Illustrated Games of Patience

© 2011 by Scott & Nix, Inc.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction: Tableau & Terms

THE GAMES

The Beautiful One

Napoleon at St. Helena

The Fortnight

Kings Over Queens

The Four Corners

The Mill

The Shah

The Blockade

The Clock

The Fortress

The Fourteenth

The Sultan

Calculation

Napoleon’s Flank

The Empress of India

The Besieged City

The Flower Garden

The Sixth Ward

Small Packages

Napoleon’s Square

The Duchess

The British Constitution

The Zodiac

Sympathy

The Louis Patience

Canfield or Klondike

Sly

PREFACE

The greater part of the solitaire games set forth in this book are capable of slight modifications, which render them easier or more difficult. To mention these in detail would lead us too far. We therefore leave to the player the pleasure of discovering them for his- or herself, and of modifying the various games as he or she sees fit.

When new games are invented, it is difficult to judge whether they will succeed too easily—or the reverse—and in either case the game becomes monotonous. This objection can in some solitaires be easily met by diminishing or augmenting the number of re-deals—in others by allowing the foundations to be taken from the pack, or on the other hand, by insisting on their being played only as they turn up in the deal.

{ The Tableau }

INTRODUCTION:

TABLEAU & TERMS

EXPLANATION OF THE TABLEAU

The preceding diagram is known as a tableau. The blank spaces show where the foundation cards should be played during the deal. When they are taken from the pack to form part of the original tableau the proper cards are painted.

EXPLANATION OF TERMS

AVAILABLE CARDS. Those that are not blocked by other cards (i.e. not forbidden by the particular rules of each game) to be used.

RELEASED CARDS. Those which, by the removal of the cards that blocked them, have now become available.

SUITABLE CARDS. Those whose value and suit fit them to be played or placed in the tableaus.

FOUNDATION CARDS. Those on which the Solitaire is formed. These are generally aces and kings.

MARRIAGE. The placing of a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value. Any number may be placed on each other in this way.

SEQUENCE. The regular succession of cards ascending from ace to king, or descending from king to ace; a sequence need not be of one suit.

VALUE. The figures of the face-cards, and the number of points of the minor ones.

SUIT. Either hearts, spades, diamonds, or clubs.

LANE. An empty space in the tableau, which has been formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.

TALON.