Picture Gallery

104 cards
1 player
medium

Picture Gallery is different from most patience games. You have to remember some new rules. But once you get used to the rules, you will play this patience more often.

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# Layout

Three horizontal rows with eight face-up cards each are laid out. Below them comes a helper row with also eight cards and some distance from the actual tableau.

# Objective

At the end, all Kings lie in the top row, all Queens below them, and all Jacks lie in the last row of the tableau.

# Gameplay

The rules for this patience are somewhat different. In the top row, the foundation card is always the 4, followed by the same-suit 7, 10 and finally the King. In the second row, the 3s are the foundation cards, followed by the same-suit 6, 9 and Queen. In the bottom row, you can probably already guess the pattern. Here the 2 is the foundation card, followed by the same-suit 5, 8 and Jack.

Now take a closer look at the tableau (see graphic). Aces are removed from the tableau as well as from the helper row. They do not play. The gaps created can now be filled with matching cards. In the second row, for example, you can place the 3 from the top row and the 3 from the bottom row. The 2 from the top row can be placed in the gap in the bottom row. Now build the subsequent cards according to the above pattern. The 7 from row 2 can be placed on the 4 in the top row. You should preferably use cards from the tableau and only then use the helper cards.

If nothing can be played up anymore, place eight cards from the stock overlapping on the helper row and continue until all cards have found their place in the tableau. However, this doesn’t always work.

# Note

If no foundation card is positioned correctly in any row during the layout and there is also no Ace in the tableau, then you must reshuffle the cards. Because no moves are possible that way.

# Summary

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