Square

Square is similar to the patience games Elevens and Thirteen in a certain way. This patience is based purely on luck and is played very quickly in between.

# Layout

Four cards are laid out as a square.

# Objective

At the end, no card may remain in the tableau, otherwise the patience has failed.

# Gameplay

Check whether two of the four cards in the square have the same suit, i.e. whether they have the suit Clubs, for example, and thus form a pair. These pairs are removed from the square and two new cards from the stock are placed in. You play this until either four cards in the square have four different suits and the patience is thus lost, or until all cards from the stock are used up. If three or four cards of the same suit are laid out, only one pair of two cards is removed.

# Variation

This patience can of course also be played with 52 or even 104 cards.

# Other name

• Rectangle

# Summary

• Lay out four cards as a square
• Always remove a pair of the same suit and place two new cards
• Objective: the stock and the tableau must be empty at the end, but if four different suits lie, you have lost

# Similar patience games

• Thirteen
• Elevens