Amazons

In the patience Amazons, cards may only be placed on the matching Aces in the correct column.

# Layout

The four Kings are removed from the game and are not needed. Then four cards are laid out face up in a horizontal row from the shuffled stock. If there is already an Ace among them, it is placed directly above this row on the far left.

# Objective

The goal of Amazons is to place same-suited ascending cards from 7 to Queen on the Aces.

# Gameplay

Four cards are always revealed from the stock and added to the horizontal row. If there are Aces among them, they are placed at the top.

Following cards, starting with the 7, may only be placed up if they are in the same vertical row as the same-suited Ace. Example: If the Ace is in the first row (far left), but the 7 appears in the second vertical row, it may not be placed up.

When all cards from the stock are laid out, they are collected in a specific order. Each vertical row is pushed together and stacked from right to left. This order must be strictly followed. Then you start again from the top with laying out four cards each.

If a family is completed with the Queen, this row is no longer counted in the next layout.

The patience is successful if all cards could be placed up. It has failed if after laying out twice in a row no more cards could be placed up.

# Summary

• remove four Kings
• lay out 4 cards face up next to each other, immediately place Aces above on the left
• goal: build same-suited ascending from Ace from 7 to Queen
• 4 cards are always laid out simultaneously from the stock
• a card may only be placed up if it is in the same column as its same-suited Ace
• when the stock is used up, the columns are picked up from right to left and form a new stock
• complete families (up to Queen) are removed from the game
• if no more cards can be placed up in two consecutive rounds, the patience is lost