40 Thieves Solitaire

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to win this difficultcard game using no redeals from the stock (though you can configureunlimited redeals in the game preferences).

Forty Thieves Rules The goal of Forty Thieves Solitaire is to move all your cards to the upper right stacks, known as foundations. Foundations must be placed from Ace to King. Meaning: A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K and have to be of the same suit. Forty Thieves Solitaire. By Novel Games Free. Developer's Description. By Novel Games Be the hero and capture all forty thieves.

In Forty Thieves, careful planning comes into play. On the tableau, youbuild sequences by identical suit descending. The thing that makesthieves quite tricky is that you can only move the to card regardless ofwhether it's part of a valid sequence or not. Combine this with the factthat the default rules say that there are no redeals and you've got agame that you'll probably end up losing most of the time. You must likea challenge.

To play this game by hand, start by fully shuffling 2 decks of cards.You then will place 40 cards on the table. All 40 cards will be dealtface up. They will be placed in 10 columns with 4 cards each.

Unlike most solitaires, in thieves you may only move one card (thetopmost on a stack) at any given time. Valid moves are to place a lowercard onto a higher card of the same suit on the tableau (e.g. 7 ofdiamonds onto an 8 of diamonds), or to move a card to one of thefoundation piles. Much like Klondike, foundation piles are built up(ascending order) from Ace to King by the same suit. Given that you areplaying with 2 decks of cards, you will have 8 foundation piles in thisgame as opposed to Klondike's 4.

1. Forty Thieves Rules. The goal of Forty Thieves Solitaire is to move all your cards to the upper right stacks, known as foundations. Foundations must be placed from Ace to King.
2. Steal some time with Forty Thieves. This is a double-decker game of classic Solitaire. Sort through the cards to create not 4 but 8 decks. This game will take some time to finish.

You win the game when you move every single card to the appropriatefoundation pile.

When you have a blank column/pile on the tableau, you may move any cardyou want to it. However, since only the top most card is playable, it'soften handy to move a King to a blank pile (assuming you have a Kingavailable to move). The reasoning behind this, is that you can thenstart building down from King to Ace on the tableau in that column. Ofcourse, this only works out well for you when you end up with afoundation pile that you can start moving all of those cards to. Forinstance, if you've built down from King to 6 of spades and then youhave a foundation pile that gets built up to the 5 of spades, you cannow move every single one of those cards in the 6 to King stack (one ata time though), and then you have a free column to play with.

The Forty Thieves Card Game can be quite difficult when played with thedefault rules (i.e., no redeals). A combination of good luck and adecent amount of skill are needed to win this game. Feel free to changethe number of redeals at any time (even in the middle of a game, if youend up getting stuck) to make this game more winnable.

We hope you enjoy playing!

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Introduction to 40 Thieves

Forty Thieves Solitaire, also spelled 40 Thieves Solitaire, is a popular card game played around the world with two 52-card decks of standard playing cards. It's also known as Big Forty, Napoleon St Helena, Roosevelt at San Juan, and Le Cadran.
The Forty in the name comes from the number of cards dealt into the Tableau at the beginning of every game.

Forty Thieves Solitaire is a difficult game to win, requiring good problem-solving skills to master.

It's also the basis for several variants, most of which make the game easier to win, including Josephine Solitaire.

Layout

The game screen is made up of 4 different areas.

The Tableau is located in the center of the screen. It consists of 10 unmarked columns. Each column either contains a vertically overlapped pile of one or more face-up cards or is empty, depending on the current state of the game. This is where most of the action takes place during gameplay.

The Foundations are located above the Tableau. Horizontally, it consists of 8 rectangles. Each rectangle is a foundation where a suit can be built from the Ace to the King.

In the upper-left corner is the Stock. This is where the reserve cards are held that will be put into play as the game progresses. At the start of the game, it contains a squared pile of face-down cards. Directly to the right of the Stock is the Waste. When a new game begins, this area is empty.

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The Stock and Waste work together in order to put reserve cards into play. Whenever the player clicks on the non-empty Stock, one card from it is automatically moved face-up into the Waste. It's not unusual to have many cards piling up in the Waste. The Waste pile is always squared, and only the top card is visible and playable. When a card is played from the Waste, the card underneath it, if there is one, becomes the new playable card.

Goal

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The goal of Forty Thieves Solitaire is to build all 8 ordered suits from the Ace to the King in the Foundations.

How to Play Forty Thieves

Forty Thieves Solitaire is played with two decks of standard playing cards, for a total of 104 cards.

When the game starts, a pile of 4 face-up cards is dealt into each of the 10 columns in the Tableau. The remaining 64 cards are sent to the Stock.

An important rule of the game is that the player is only allowed to ever move one card at a time. However, in the variant called Josephine Solitaire, the player is allowed to move descending suited runs of any length within the Tableau. Other than that, the two games are identical.

No card can ever be moved to the Waste other than from the Stock. At the player's discretion, this can be done at any point during the game.

A card may be moved to the bottom of a Tableau pile, either from the Waste, a foundation, or the bottom of another Tableau pile. The target card must always be both next in rank to the card being moved and of the same suit. When a column is vacant, any card from the same sources may be moved into it.

The player is allowed to move a card to a foundation, either from the bottom of a Tableau pile or from the Waste. However, the card must fit. If the card is an Ace, it begins a new suit build, and if it's next in rank for its suit, it extends a build.