Caesar

The patience Caesar is more of a card puzzle than a patience and requires only nine cards.

# Layout

You take nine cards of the same suit (Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) from a deck and lay them out randomly in three rows of three cards as a square face up.

# Objective

Each vertical, horizontal and the two diagonal rows of three cards each must have a combined card value of 15 at the end. The Ace counts as 1.

# Gameplay

Since this patience is more like a math problem, there are no rules for gameplay. You keep swapping two cards with each other until the target is met.

# Summary

• lay out 9 cards of one suit (Ace to 9) face up as a 3×3 square
• goal: each horizontal, vertical and diagonal row adds up to 15
• Ace counts as 1
• cards may be swapped arbitrarily until the condition is met