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AcesUp
Aces up is an extremely easy game to play but difficult to complete. 4 cards are dealt from the pack onto 4 tableau. For each suit all cards are removed except the one with the highest number. Only the top card of each tableau is available for play, when no more cards can be removed then another layer of cards is dealt from the pack. The game is won when only the four aces are remaining.
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Gaps
The cards are dealt out in 4 tableau piles and the Aces removed. The aim of the game is to rearrange the cards into 4 runs of suit and in ascending order. A gap can be swapped with the card which is of the same suit and one greater than the card to the left of the gap. When the first card of the row is a gap then any two can be moved there. No card can be moved to a gap to the immediate right of a king. When no more cards can be moved then the incorrect cards in the tableau can be redealt.
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Kings
There are 16 card placeholders arranged in a 4x4 grid. During each turn the grid is filled by turning over a card from the pack and placing it onto the grid. Kings must be placed at the corners, Queens must be placed on the two sides and the Jacks must be placed on the top or bottom. When the grid is full, pairs of cards totalling 10 can be removed (10s can be removed singly). The aim of the game is to get all the Royal cards onto the grid. The game ends if one cannot be placed.
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Thieves
35 cards are dealt face up into 7 columns. The aim of the game is to remove all the cards from the playing area. This is achieved by dealing a card from the pack and then removing cards from the playing area which are one above or one below the current card. When no more cards can be removed then another card is dealt from the pack and so on. The cards are redealt if all are removed and the game ends when the pack is empty and there are cards still in play.