Order Star

In the patience Order Star, cards with the same value are cleverly combined and removed from the star.

# Layout

In the patience Order Star, eight cards are laid out face up in the shape of an octagon. Another card is laid out over each of these eight cards, creating a kind of star. The remaining cards go into the middle as the stock.

# Objective

The goal of this patience is simple: In the end, all cards must have been removed in pairs.

# Gameplay

Cards are revealed one by one from the stock and checked whether there is a card with the same value in the layout, for example an 8 and a 8. Then the card from the stock and the card from the layout are removed and the next card from the stock is revealed.

When you remove a card from the inner circle and there is still a card in the outer circle, it is moved into the inner circle. The free spaces in the outer circle of the Order Star are important for placing cards that don’t match there.

Once all cards from the stock are used up and only pairs of the same value remain in the layout, they are removed one after another and the patience is solved. However, if the stock still has cards left and there is no space in the layout, the patience has unfortunately failed.

# Summary

• lay out 8 cards face up as an octagon, add 8 more cards on top to complete the star
• remaining cards form the stock in the middle
• goal: remove all cards in pairs with the same value
• cards are revealed one at a time from the stock
• if the value matches an open card in the layout, both are removed
• if a card from the inner circle is removed, the overlying card from the outer circle moves in
• free spaces in the outer circle serve to place non-matching cards
• if only matching pairs remain, the layout is completely cleared