Divorce

Divorce belongs more to the difficult patience games and doesn't succeed very often. Nevertheless, the patience can be a lot of fun.

# Layout

In this patience, you lay out ten vertical columns with four face-down cards each and one face-up card overlapping.

# Objective

In Divorce, eight same-suit sequences from King descending to Ace must be formed. Each complete sequence in the tableau should then be removed from the game and placed at the top.

# Gameplay

There are a few special rules in this patience. Cards may be moved in descending order without suit constraint, so for example a 9 may also be placed on a 10. But with sequences it’s different. These may only be moved in the same suit. Therefore, sequences that are too colorful should not be formed if possible. Important in Divorce is to clear the face-down cards. If you have cleared a vertical column, this is very helpful! Because this allows colorful sequences to be sorted into same-suit sequences. Any card may be placed in empty columns.

If nothing can be moved anymore, one card from the stock is placed on each vertical column. But empty columns in Divorce remain empty! No card from the stock goes there. This is a special rule in this patience. When nothing works again, you place cards from the stock again – you do this until the stock is used up.

Another special rule is that cards may only be played up when you really have laid a complete same-suit descending sequence from King to Ace in the tableau. Only then may the sequence be completely played up. Until then, it takes up an important space, so to speak. If you have managed to place eight same-suit sequences above the tableau at the end, the patience has succeeded.

# Important

Since there is no suit constraint in this patience, you can easily overlook that, for example, in an allegedly same-suit sequence there are 7 and 6. You should therefore always be very attentive that you don’t play up a sequence with a wrong card in it.

# Other name

• Spider Solitaire (very similar)

# Summary

• Lay out ten vertical columns with four face-down cards and one face-up card overlapping
• Cards may be moved without suit constraint, so also 9 on a 10
• Sequences may only be moved in the same suit
• Empty columns may be filled with any card
• If nothing works, a new card from the stock goes on each column, except on empty columns, these remain empty
• Cards may only be played up when a complete same-suit descending sequence from King to Ace has been formed
• Objective: form same-suit descending sequences from King to Ace and remove them from the tableau

# Similar patience games

• Nasty Elevens
• Hermann
• Irmgard
• Hidden Hope