One Person Card Game

Laying Seige, Sham Battle, or Beleaguered Castle

This is a one person card game to fill up some of the one on one time we often find ourselves with. TV is boring, and sometimes one gets a little tired of reading. Plus the weather right now is wonderful, but soon it will be foggy and dreary, and lets face it we need something to do.

A= Aces

1-48=the rest of the deck in dealing order.

Set up

Step One: Remove all four aces from one deck of regular playing cards.

Step Two: Place these aces in a column in the middle of a table.

A

A

A

A

Step Three: Shuffle the remainder of the deck.

Step Four: A column of four is delt to the left of the aces followed by the right.

1 A 5

2 A 6

3 A 7

4 A 8

Step Five: Continue dealing in this way until the deck is gone. There should be 6 cards in each pile.

1 9 17 25 33 41 A 5 13 21 29 37 45

2 10 18 26 34 42 A 6 14 22 30 38 46

3 11 19 27 35 43 A 7 15 23 31 39 47

4 12 20 28 36 44 A 8 16 24 32 40 48

The object is to build on the foundations, the aces suit sequences up to the kings. A 2 3 4---K

The cards available or open to play are those on the far end of each row. Cards 41-48 at first. i.e those cards whose faces are fully exposed.

Open cards can be played directly onto the foundations(aces), or onto another open card in decending order of rank, irrespective of suit, e.g. a 6 can be packed on any 7.

When one row is empty it can be filled with any available card. There are always 8 available cards for play.