Wedding Procession

Wedding Procession is a patience with the rare rule that cards are played up in a skipping pattern. A beautiful card pattern emerges at the end.

# Layout

In Wedding Procession, eight card piles with four face-up cards each are laid out in a horizontal row with some distance between them. Below is space for two more horizontal rows that lie crosswise and are filled during the game. At the bottom, as at the top, eight card piles with four face-up cards each are laid out.

# Objective

In the upper empty row, all Queens lie at the end, and in the lower row all Kings. For the Queens, the 2s are the foundation cards with a skipping ascending same-suit sequence (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, Queen) and for the Kings, the Aces are the foundation cards with a skipping ascending same-suit sequence (Ace, 3, 5, 7, 9, Jack, King).

# Gameplay

First check whether foundation cards (Aces and 2s) as well as subsequent cards are already on the 16 card piles and can be played up. Place these in the two horizontal rows that were kept free crosswise, preferably always in the same suit next to each other. When nothing can be played up anymore, you may move cards in descending order in the same suit onto another card pile. If you get a free space this way, place four face-up cards from the stock there again.

When all possibilities are exhausted, push the card piles face-down and unshuffled under the stock, starting from the top right. Then 16 card piles with four cards each from the stock are laid out again. From now on, empty spaces may also be filled with a single card from the card piles. The stock may then be gone through one more time when the patience stalls again. The patience should have succeeded by then.

# Summary

• Lay out eight card piles with four face-up cards each in a horizontal row, leave space below for two rows for eight foundation cards each that will lie crosswise, at the very bottom lay out eight card piles with four cards each again
• Foundation cards and subsequent cards can be played up
• Empty spaces are filled with four new cards from the stock
• Moving from card pile to card pile in descending order in the same suit is allowed
• When nothing works anymore, all card piles are picked up starting from the top right and pushed under the stock, then 16 card piles with four cards each are laid out again
• This time empty spaces may be filled with a single card from a card pile
• The stock may be gone through one more time
• Objective: skipping same-suit build in the upper empty row from 2 to Queen and in the lower empty row from Ace to King