

SOLITAIRE GAMES TWO DECKS OF CARDS FULL
To start play, shuffle up a full deck and deal out 25 face-up cards in a 5 x 5 grid, then hold the rest to the side in a stock pile. This version of solitaire, sometimes called Weddings or Good Neighbors, is a quick matching game for all ages and levels of complexity. $12.99 −$2.66 $10.33 Buy Now on Amazon Affiliate link / commissions earned ( read disclosure)


You may go through the stock pile one card at a time to find more matches, and go through them again as many times as you want until you are either out of moves or clear away the pyramid! Kings alone count as 13 (these are free, they get set aside by themselves)įor a brief example, in the picture above, the 8 & 5 in the bottom row can be placed aside, and the 9 & 4 in the bottom row can be placed aside, but the King on the right side of the second row cannot be placed until the 7 below it is matched with a 6.To play, you may match two cards that total thirteen from the pyramid that are fully exposed (that means that there are no other cards covering them from lower rows), or a card from the stock to a card in the pyramid. If You Love Classic Games Like Cards and Dice, Check out These Posts: If you like to keep score on incomplete games, count the number of cards left in the stockpile once you’ve run out of moves, and the lower the number of cards left, the better. Repeat as necessary, cycling through the stockpile in threes until you’ve either run out of moves, or you’ve sorted all of the cards into their piles and won the game! Place these onto their appropriate pile, and again immediately replace any empty spaces you create with the top face-down card from the stockpile. Once you’ve exhausted all of the moves available to you from the set up, now you can start with the cards in the stockpile, pulling them three at a time, like in traditional solitaire. When you place a card onto another pile, pull the top face down card from the stockpile into the empty space and continue. Once you’ve dealt the cards out into the rows it’ll look like a mess in front of you, but now you can start stacking by suit from anywhere. A game of Devil’s Gripįor those you who like or need a visual aid, here’s a very helpful tutorial.

These look arbitrary upon reading the rules, but they make sense visually on a grid: twos in the top row, threes in the middle, fours on the bottom row, then they’re topped by fives on the top, sixes in the middle, and so on.
