Decade (solitaire) - Variations

Variations

• Cards are placed in seven separate stacks, if all the cards in a stack are discarded the stack is eliminated and cards are no longer added to it. The game is won when all stacks have been eliminated.
• Only up to three consecutive cards that total ten, twenty, or thirty can be discarded (as opposed to at least two cards in the standard rules).
• The line is treated as a loop instead of a straight line. So if the total of up to 3 three consecutive cards (or at least two consecutive cards, depending on the rule set one follows) in the stack which feature at least one card from the top of the stack equal 10, 20, or 30, they are discarded (see Example 1).

Example 1:

4

8

3

3

J

6

Because the stack is treated as a loop, and the cards selected use at least one card from the top of the stack discarding 4, J and 6 as a set of three totaling 20 (4 + 10 + 6), would be valid.

• Cards that total 5, 15, 25, or 35 can also be discarded. (Implemented as a variation of the game in Interplay's Solitaire Deluxe)