Five Aces: Queen of Tarot

Five Aces

Tarock type. 1 deck. No redeal.

Object

Move all cards to the foundations.

Quick description

This is a Baker’s Dozen type game played with the 78 card Tarock deck. Piles build down in rank in alternate colors. The Trumps can play as either color. The five Aces are dealt to the foundations at the start of the game.

Rules

Rows build down in rank by alternate color with the Trumps playing as either color. A pile may be moved to another location but only a single card may be played on an empty row. Cards may be played from the foundations.

Strategy

Use the Trumps to open spots for suit cards.

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...