Gloucestershire

Objective

To build the 4 Foundations up in Ascending Family Sequence twice, wrapping from Ace to King once.

Layout

- This game is played with two packs of 52, well shuffled, playing cards.
- The Tableau (T) consists of 52 cards dealt in 8 columns of 3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10 cards (from left to right respectively). All cards are dealt face-up.
- The Reserves (R) starts with the 24 face-up cards each.
- The Foundations (F) start with an ace each, waiting for building.

Rules

- The Tableau is built in Descending Family Sequence wrapping from Ace to King if needed. The exposed card of each Tableau column can be moved to another Tableau column or to the Foundations if it fits the target pile building rules. Also, a partial pack of exposed cards, forming a valid suit, can be moved to another Tableau column if the head card fits the target pile building rules. When a Tableau column is cleared out the space may only be filled by a King or a valid suit headed by a King.
- The Foundations are built in Ascending Family Sequence twice, wrapping from Ace to King once. The exposed card of any Foundation can be moved to the Tableau if it fits the target pile building rules.
- The Reserves accept no building. Any one card may be picked from any Reserve and moved to a Tableau column or to the Foundations if it fits the target pile building rules.

Notes

This is an easy to win variation of Spider where the Stock is replaced by 2 open Reserves.

Solo Cards - (C) 2000 - Bertrand Vauthier