Double Solitaire társasjáték

Angol leírás

Theme:

Double Solitaire is a card game that uses a standard 52-card deck per player. It is a real-time game where players manipulate a personal area (with rules from the famous single-player game, Solitaire) while competing with the others to play cards in a central area that give them points at the end of the game.

Setup:

Each player starts with a standard, 52-card deck of playing cards. The decks must all be of different designs (so that they can be sorted out at the end of the game for scoring purposes). Then each player places 12 cards face-down in a pile on his left, with a 13th card face-up. This is the player's stack. Then deal one card (each) face-up into four different slots to the right of the stack. These four slots, along with the stack, are the player's "personal area." In the middle of the table, it is important for there to be plenty of space between the personal areas for the shared area. It starts with no cards in it. The 35 cards remaining are the player's deck.

Gameplay:

When all players announce they are ready, all players start play simultaneously. Each player constantly decides to do one of two things: manipulate their personal area, or sift through their deck. In the personal area, players may move cards in the four piles according to Solitaire rules (i.e. a black 8 may be played on a red 9). Cards from the stack may be moved onto any of the 4 piles, but cards may not be moved from the piles onto the stack. Also, at any time that an Ace is in a player's personal area, he may move it to the shared area. Also, any top cards (the top card in a series or the stack) may be played from the personal area to the shared area on top of a card that is one rank less than it of the same suit (i.e. a 2 of hearts may be played on an Ace of hearts). Whenever playing in the shared area, players must only use one hand.

If a player has no moves he wishes to make in his personal area, he goes through his deck. He holds his deck in one hand, with all cards face-down. Then he plays two cards face-down in front of him and plays the third one face-up. He then decides if he wants to play the third card anywhere in his four piles or in the shared area. If he does not, he flips it face down (on top of the other face-down card) and then repeats (plays two more cards face-down and the third face-up). When he gets to the end of his deck, he always flips the final card face-up, no matter if it was a first, second, or third. He now picks up his deck again and repeats the process. (Alternate rules for easy-mode: the player goes through his deck one at a time instead of only seeing every third card.)

Game End and Scoring:

The game ends when one player plays the final card from their stack and yells, "out"! All other players count the number of cards remaining in their stack; they count as negative points against them. Then players help to sort out all cards in the shared area by whose deck it was played from; these count as points for players. If one player has reached 100 or more, the game is over and the player with the highest score declared the winner.