Excuse: Queen of Tarot

Excuse

Tarock type. 1 deck. No redeal.

Object

Move all cards to the foundations.

Rules

Rows build down in rank regardless of suit. Only one card can be moved at a time. Foundations build up in rank by suit. An empty row stack cannot be filled. For this reason the Kings and the highest Trump are dealt to the bottoms of the rows. Cards can be played from the foundations.

Strategy

Uncover low rank cards before building on higher rank cards on top of them. Use cards already on the foundations to assist in moving rows.

Source

The rules for this game were pulled from the documentation for PySolFC, which is a free program released under GPL.

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Gamblers caught printing cards in China

Tags: chinese, china, playing cards, asian, 1294, history

On the twenty-third day of the sixth month in the thirty-first year of the zhiyuan period (17 July 1294), we caught Yan Sengzhu and Zheng Zhugou playing cards, and have also found wood blocks to print cards. Each person has admitted to the truth of the accusation. We have, according to the rules, passed judgement and punished correctly the organizer Lu Donger, accessory to gambling Zheng Zhugou, the owner of the premises Jiang Sier, and the block printer Ye Lin, and dispatched to the Ever-abundant Treasury for deposit the nine cards (zhipai) that were about to be destroyed, and...