Forty Thieves

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Forty Thieves

2 decks. Difficult. No redeal.

This solitaire uses 104 cards (2 decks). You have 10 tableau piles with 4 cards per pile and 8 foundations.

Aces are moved to the foundations as they become available.

The object of the game is to build up all cards on foundations from Ace to King by following suit.

The rules:

Top cards of tableau piles and waste pile are available to play. You can build tableau piles down by following suit. Only one card at a time can be moved from pile to pile. When any of tableaus are empty you can fill space with any card.

When you have made all the available plays on the board, begin turning over cards from stock to the waste.

You can move cards from the waste to the tableaus and to the foundations according to the rules.

There is no redeal.

Comment:

The rules state that you can move only one card at a time. But as a shortcut, BVS Solitaire will allow you to move a full or partial build if there are enough empty tableau piles, because you would have been able to accomplish the same effect by temporary moving the extra cards into the empty tableaus.

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