Hermann

104 cards
1 player
difficult

Hermann is a patience that requires a lot of patience. It almost never succeeds and has a special trick.

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# Layout

In this patience, ten vertical columns are laid out. One face-up card goes in the first column. Then each subsequent column receives overlapping one new face-down card and finally a face-up card. In the tenth column there are therefore nine face-down cards and finally one face-up card (see graphic).

# Objective

The goal in Hermann is to correctly play up all cards onto one large pile. Black and red cards are placed alternating colors in descending order. You always start with a King and end with an Ace, then the same thing again, until all cards are used up.

# Gameplay

All face-up cards in the tableau are eligible to play. If there is already a King in the layout, the first occurring King is placed as a foundation card on a pile. It doesn’t matter whether it is red or black. Then follows always alternating colors and descending Queen, Jack, 10 and so on down to the Ace, which logically has the opposite color of the King. So if there is a red King at the beginning, there is a black Ace at the end. On the Ace follows another King and the whole thing continues like this until all cards are used up.

When Aces appear in the tableau, they are placed above the tableau. They only play when you need them on the large pile after a 2. Until then, they lie on top as dead cards. Cards in the tableau may be moved in descending order with alternating colors. Connected sequences may also be moved. Face-down cards are turned over when they are completely visible. It makes sense to first resolve the smaller columns, as you get empty columns faster this way. Empty columns are important, because through them you can move cards better and reveal more face-down cards. Any card or sequence may be placed in empty columns.

If nothing can be moved anymore, one card from the stock is placed overlapping on each vertical column, regardless of whether the column is empty or occupied. Then check again whether something can be played up or moved. On the very last placement of cards from the stock, there are only nine cards instead of ten, so don’t be surprised – you didn’t make a mistake. If at the end a large card pile has been created always from King to Ace, then the patience has succeeded. But this will happen very rarely.

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