Hope
# Layout
The patience Hope has no layout in this sense. It emerges only during the course of play.
# Objective
The goal is to remove an entire family A group of cards of the same suit (e.g. all Hearts), arranged in sequence from Ace through King or vice versa: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen and King Refers to the colour category of the cards: there are black cards and red cards. The black cards are Clubs and Spades, the red cards are Hearts and Karo.
# Gameplay
First, you decide whether you want , , or as your target suit for this patience. Then three cards are always turned over simultaneously from the stock and laid out in a row. If there are cards in the desired suit, they are removed. Then three more cards are laid out and this process is repeated until a total of five times three cards have been revealed.
If not all eight cards of the desired suit have been removed yet, the cards on the table are collected, shuffled with the stock and laid out again up to five times with three cards each. This process may be repeated a third time. If not all eight cards have been removed by then, the patience has unfortunately failed.
# Summary
- choose a target suit at the beginning (, , or )
- goal: remove all 8 cards of that suit
- reveal 3 cards simultaneously from the stock
Talonstock The talon is the name given to the face-down stack of cards at the start of the game, from which, after being laid out, there are still cards left over that are used for the rest of the game. This packing of cards is also known as a block or draw pile.
- cards of the chosen suit are immediately removed
- a total of 5× 3 cards are laid out
- if not all 8 cards are removed, the remaining cards are shuffled and laid out again
- the entire process may be performed a maximum of 3 times