You can buy decks of cards at your local supermarket, online, or in your local games store. Make sure each player has their own deck.
If you lose a card, you can use 1 of the jokers as a replacement card. Write the number and suit of the card you lost on the joker.
Shuffle each deck separately. You don’t want 1 person having 2 duplicates of the same card.
Continue placing the cards down in the same manner. For example, place a card facing up on the fourth pile and 3 cards facing down on the next 3 rows. At the end, pile 7 should have 1 card facing up and 6 cards facing down. Set up 2 separate tableaus for you and your friend.
Each player should have a separate stock pile.
If you and your friend use the top card from the stock piles, place the card back to the bottom of the deck.
For example, if 1 of the piles has a 7 of hearts on it and you pull a 6 of spades from your stock pile, you can place your 6 of spades below the 7 of hearts. You must place the cards sequentially. A 6 must be placed after a 7, a 3 after a 4, a jack after a queen. If you can’t play a card from the stock pile, you can return it to the bottom of your stock pile. You cannot place a red suited card under a red suited card or vice versa.
In fact, most of the game will be played using the piles on the tableau.
When your friend can’t make a move, it’s your turn to go again.
A completed pile is when you have a pile of 13 cards from ace to king all in the same suit.
Remove the 2 jokers from each deck.
Don’t mix more than 1 deck at a time in a single area. If you’re spreading the cards out, it’s very easy for them to get mixed together.
For example, a jack of diamonds or hearts can only be placed below a queen of spades or clubs. You can send cards that you can’t place from the stock pile to the discard pile.
As the game goes on, you’ll be using the tableau more and more. You will also need to move the cards on the tableau so you can access the face down cards in the piles.
For example, you have an ace of spades off to the side and you find the 2 of spades. Place the 2 on top of the ace. Do the same when you find the 3 of spades and so on.
A completed pile consists of 13 cards from ace to king in the same suit. You can keep playing after the winner finishes to find out who comes second, third, fourth, and so on.
