![]() ![]() Continue this pattern until pile seven has one card facing up on top of a pile of six cards facing down. Starting again from left to right, place one card face up on the third pile and deal one card face down on piles four through seven. Starting again from left to right, place one card face up on the second pile and deal one card face down on piles three through seven. Starting from left to right, place the first card face up to make the first pile, deal one card face down for the next six piles. To form the tableau, seven piles need to be created. The Talon (or “Waste”) Pile: Cards from the stock pile that have no place in the tableau or on foundations are laid face up in the waste pile. The Stock (or “Hand”) Pile: If the entire pack is not laid out in a tableau at the beginning of a game, the remaining cards form the stock pile from which additional cards are brought into play according to the rules. The foundation piles are hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. In most Solitaire games, the four aces are the bottom card or base of the foundations. The Foundations: Four piles on which a whole suit or sequence must be built up. The Tableau: Seven piles that make up the main table. There are four different types of piles in Solitaire: The rank of cards in Solitaire games is: K (high), Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A (low). The ultimate objective is to build the whole pack onto the foundations, and if that can be done, the Solitaire game is won. The first objective is to release and play into position certain cards to build up each foundation, in sequence and in suit, from the ace through the king. ![]() Standard Solitaire uses one 52-card pack. Experts, however, may want to skip this one and play QQP's Bridge Olympiad instead.Virtually all Solitaire games are played with one or more standard 52-card packs. Highly recommended, especially for fans of Sierra adventure games and card game beginners. Overall, Hoyle Official Book of Games is a great collection of card games that may not boast the best AI, but is very user-friendly and enjoyable. It is entertaining to watch Princess Rosella grimace after getting a bad hand, and that grumpy Colonel Henry (from Colonel's Bequest) grit his teeth and concede defeat after losing badly :) ![]() These opponents are also well-animated, and you can use their facial expressions as signals of how well they are doing. You can also turn off their incessant chatter once it begins to get on your nerves. The "not-so-serious" players (which most Sierra characters are) will also give you gentle hints and nudges when you spend a long time thinking, or make an invalid move. They will even bicker among themselves depending on how well they know the other people! King Graham, for instance, will brag about his adventures in Daventry, Roger Wilco will dreadfully recall his tasks as a galactic janitor, and Sonny Bonds will share anecdotes about police life. This is most fun coming from opponents who are characters from famous Sierra games e.g. One of the best features of the game is the conversation you will hear among the opponents, as well as between them and you, the player. Although these are the same 18 opponents for all card games, the fact that you only play against 1-3 of them at a time keep the replay value high. Clicking on their portraits yields a brief introduction, along with games they are good at. Opponents you can choose to play against are classified as 9 "not-so-serious," and 9 "serious" players. Each card game comes complete with well-written on-line rules that can be called up at any time during game. What sets the game apart from other card games are the excellent graphics, intuitive mouse-based user interface, and- best of all- the ability to choose popular Sierra game characters as your opponents. First and best in Sierra's underrated series of computerized parlor games based on the most popular anthology book of the same name, Hoyle Official Book of Games features six popular care games: crazy eights, old maid, hearts, gin rummy, cribbage, klondike. ![]()
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