Pagat: Queen of Tarot

Pagat

Tarock type. 1 deck. No redeal.

Object

Move all cards to the foundations.

Rules

This is a Freecell type of game. Cards on the tableau build down in rank by suit. Cards build up in rank on the foundations. A stack can be moved if the cards are in decending rank order regardless of the suit. Any card or stack can be played on an empty row.

Strategy

The foundations are less important early in the game than building movable stacks. Use the reserve stacks carefully.

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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Pagat Tarot Solitaire in PySolFC

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...