Rules
- Two decks are used (104 cards).
- Deal ten tableau piles of four cards each, all face up and all visible.
- Leave space for eight foundation piles above the tableau piles.
- You may only move the top card from any tableau. You may place any one card in an empty tableau space.
- For every empty tableau you may move one card at once from one tableau to another, as a short cut, as long as all cards you move are built down by suit.
- The tableaus are built down by suit.
- The foundations are built up by suit, from ace to king.
- You may deal one card at a time from the stock to the waste.
- You may use the top card from the waste.
- You may only go through the stock once.
- The object of the game is to move all the cards to the foundations.
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